DRAGANA

KRSENKOVIC BRKOVIC

 

Dragana Krsenkovic Brkovic is a writer from Montenegro. She is the author of a novel (The Lost Seal), story collections (The Fire in Alexandria, The Master’s Palace), and children’s books - collections of original fairy tales (The Secret of a Blue Crystal, The Genie of the Manito Lake).

Also, Dragana writes studies, critics, and academic essays about literature, theater, media, gender, and many other social issues.

She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, and from the Faculty of Drama Arts, Department of Dramaturgy, University of Arts in Belgrade. She received MPhil in the Study of Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro.

Dragana graduated from the first faculty because of her father's wish.  Although these four years raised her awareness about social and political implications of artistic work, she never took an active role as a politician.

TV Belgrade decided to screen Dragana's television drama Hot Drops in 1981. This was her first play, written as a part of the entrance examination at the Faculty of Drama Arts.  

Despite wartime environment, in the course of 1994, Dragana founded the Puppet Theatre The Blue Lagoon, the first puppet theatre in Montenegro, together with her husband Tomislav Brkovic. With The Blue Lagoon, Dragana established recognizable poetic and aesthetic criteria and qualities, while puppet performances gained serious outlines in Montenegro.  The Hidden Treasure of the Little Troll 

Her book The Genie of the Manito Lake has been chosen for The White Ravens 2011 by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, Germany. The White Raven label is given to 250 books of international interest that deserve wider reception due to their universal theme and their exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style.

 

Fiction:

The Genie of the Manito Lake. 2010. Podgorica: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva /State Textbook Publishing House/.

The Lost Seal. 2008. Podgorica: Crnogorsko društvo nezavisnih književnika (CDNK) /Montenegrin Society of Independent Writers/.

The Fire in Alexandria. 2006. Podgorica: Crnogorsko društvo nezavisnih književnika (CDNK) /Montenegrin Society of Independent Writers/.

The Master's Palace. 2004. Podgorica: Crnogorsko društvo nezavisnih književnika (CDNK) /Montenegrin Society of Independent Writers/.

Behind the Invisible Wall. 1997. Podgorica: Aquamarine.

The Secret of a Blue Crystal. 1996 (2001 – 2nd edition; 2010 - 3rd edition). Podgorica: Aquamarine; Kulturno-prosvjetna zajednica; Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva. 

 

Non-fiction:

Forgotten Journey – Traces Imprinted in Fairy Tales. 2010, No.1/2 (Part I); 2011, No. 3/4 (Part II). Folia Linguistica et Litteraria - Journal of Language and Literary Studies, Niksic: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro.

 

Scholarships, Grants:

2011 (September): 23rd Biennial of Illustrations /BIB/. Bratislava, Slovakia.
           
2011 (July): Writers in Residence Program. Vienna, Austria.

2011 (May): International Literary Meeting The Embroidered Bridge. Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2011 (March): The Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Bologna, Italy.

2008 (January): One Month Visit Program. Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Institut für Slawistik, Graz, Austria.

2005-2006: Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program. University of California – Davis; University of Maryland – College Park, Washington DC, the US.

2002: International Meeting of Children’s Writers. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2000: 1st International Forum for a Culture of Peace by Mediterranean Women Creators. Rhodes, Greece.

 

If you want to read more about Dragana’s books, go to Books, or Reviews&Interviews link.

 

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