Ratko Adamović
Ratko Adamović is a Serbian writer.Life and Work
Adamović studied comparative literature at the Philological Faculty in Belgrade. The writer was long-serving official of the Association of Writers of Serbia for several decades. He is author of fourteen novels, four volumes of collected short stories and essays, created in the period from 1971-2016. The collection Gardens of Spirit contains essays on Marguerite Yourcenar, Fernand Braudel, Béla Hamvas, John Cowper Powys, Alexander Genis, Paul Virilio, Daniel J. Boorstin, Gaston Bachelard, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Le Goff, Paulo Coelho, Christoph Ransmayr and others. He received the Isidora Sekulić Award 1997 for his novel Immortal Kaleb ; was President of its Jury from 2009-2016. He is recipient of the artists supporting program National Pension of the Republic of Serbia since 2012. His novel Rope has been published in Polish, three of his short stories in German, Lithuanian and English anthologies. His work is often associated with Serbian science fiction.
In his online biography, he did not name his place of birth, but in the e-book collection of his edited works by Agencija Tea Books is Sarajevo given, which does not correspond to the facts. In any case, he was participant of a political-cultural event in his real birthplace in July 1990, which became capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina a year later. During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, he obviously talked to an Australian journalist in Klub književnika about Kosovo, published by Green Left Weekly with the headline: Sexism and Racism in the Balkans. He is a member of Serbian PEN and lives in Belgrade.
