As many as 156 novels have been submitted so far for the NIN Award for 2015, and several previous winners are among the candidates. The name of the winner, as announced by NIN in the new issue, will be known on January 18, based on the decision of the jury chaired by Božo Koprivica.
Koprivica and the other members of the jury: Mihajlo Pantić, Jasmina Vrbavac, Tamara Krstić and Zoran Paunović, already have a huge job, and it is possible that they will receive another title by the end of the year, by which time publishers and authors have the opportunity to send their novels that are first published in 2015. Among the candidates for the 2015 NIN award for the novel are previous winners Milisav Savić, Dragan Velikić, Svetislav Basara, Aleksandar Gatalica and Gordana Ćirjanić.
Milisav Savić, winner of the NIN Award in 1991 for "Bread and Fear", is now nominated for the novel "Las Sans Pareille" (Agora), Dragan Velikić was nominated for the already awarded novel "Investigator" (Laguna), and received the NIN - this award in 2007 for "Russian Window", while Svetislav Basara, awarded in 2006 for "The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease", was nominated for "Angel of Assassination" (Laguna). Gordana Ćirjanić, winner of NIN's award in 2010 for "Everything you always wanted", was nominated for "The Seven Lives of Princess Smile" (Vukotić media), and Aleksandar Gatalica, who was awarded in 2012 for received NIN's award for " Great War", and now it is in competition with the novel "Sonata for a Bad Man" (Vulkan). Among the proposed titles are more than ten books published by the authors themselves, and Nova Poetika, Laguna, Službeni glasnik lead the way in terms of the number of nominated titles.
The NIN award for 2014 went to Filip David for the novel "House of Memories and Oblivion", published by Laguna, for which he later received the regional award "Meša Selimović" for the best novel published in 2014. The NIN award is from In 1954, until the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was awarded to writers from all over the territory of the former state. According to the rules established in 2011, novels published in the Serbian language can be included in the competition, regardless of the place of publication.
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