Vida Ognjenović


Vida Ognjenović is a Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat.

Biography

Ognjenović completed primary education in the town of Vrbas, before going to Sremski Karlovci for gymnasium studies and later got degrees in world literature at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and directing at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
In 1989 she was one of the founders of the Democratic Party, the first opposition party in Serbia. She was appointed Ambassador to Norway representing Serbia and Montenegro from 2001 until 2006. She served as the ambassador of Serbia to Denmark from 2007 until 2013.
Her drama "Jegor's road" was inspired by the story about Russian monk from Praskvica Monastery.
She was one of the leading Parliamentary candidates of the Democratic Party in the January 2007 elections in Serbia. She was a vice-president of the Democratic Party.
In 2012 she was given the World Award of Humanism by the Ohrid Academy of Humanism.

Works