Miodrag Bulatović


Miodrag Bulatović was a writer, novelist, journalist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the best Serbian novelists and remains one of the most translated Serbian authors.

Biography

Bulatović began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Djavoli dolaze, for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His novel The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of northeastern Montenegro, was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. He then stopped publishing for a time, to protest against interference in his work.
His next novel, Hero on a Donkey, "A dark hot nightmare of a war novel...", was first published abroad and only four years later in Yugoslavia.
Common themes in his works are demons, devil, evil, grotesque and black humor.
In 1975, Bulatović won the NIN Award for novel of the year for People with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life. The Fifth Finger was a sequel to that book. His last novel was Gullo Gullo, which brought together various themes from his previous books.
A library in Rakovica is named after him.
Bulatović was known "for his fierce Serbian nationalism, which earned him the enmity of other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia, and he was an official of Serbia's Socialist Party."

Works