The writer Gordana Kuić, author of nine novels and two collections of stories, died in Belgrade at the age of 81.
Kuić was born in Belgrade in 1942 and graduated in English language and literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and Hunter College in New York.
She worked as an English language advisor at the American Embassy in Belgrade, as a consultant at AYUSA International in Belgrade, and as an English language administrator in Eastern Europe and for humanitarian aid to former Yugoslav republics at the Soros Foundation in New York.
She published the novels "Scent of Rain in the Balkans", "Linden Blossom in the Balkans", "Smiraj dana na Balkan", "Ghosts over the Balkans", "Legend of Luna Levi", Fable of Benjamin Baruch", "Ballad of Bohoreta", " Novel in pictures" and "Novel in stories". Also, she published two books of short stories "Remaining stories" and "On the other side of the night".
A TV series directed by Ivan Stefanović was filmed based on her novel "Lime Blossom in the Balkans". Also, based on the novel "The smell of rain in the Balkans", a TV series and a movie were filmed, directed by Ljubiša Samardžić.
The play "The smell of rain in the Balkans" was written in the dramatization of Nebojsa Romčević, which premiered in 2009 in Madlenijanum.
"The smell of rain in the Balkans - ballet about Rika" premiered in Sarajevo in 1992, and in Belgrade the same year at BEMUS.
Kuić received the Women's Pen Award for 2006, the Best Prose Award of the Banja Luka Book Fair for collected works, and the BIH Publishers and Bookstore Award for 2010. Her novels have been translated into French, English, Polish, Macedonian, Slovenian, Italian, German, Spanish and Hebrew.
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