The jury included 2019 titles in the shortlist for awarding the Nino Award for the best novel of 32, although as many as 201 works were submitted for reading. Among the 32 selected works, there were also new works by some of the earlier winners of this prestigious literary award, as well as works by debutants of different generations, published by large and small independent publishers.
The novels in competition are: "Nema oza" by Bojan Savić Ostojić (publishing house Besna kobila), "Adresa" by Dragan Velikić (IK Laguna), "Nothing is easier than dying" by Elvedin Nezirović (IK Laguna), "Persson" by Nikola Lazić (Laguna). , "Son of the Prodigal Son" by Uroš Lazić (author's edition), "Mulatto Albino Mosquito" by Stevo Grabovac (Imprimatur), "Jegermeister" by Darko Tuševljaković (Archipelago), "Owner of All Ours" by Nina Savčić (Archipelago), "Spiderman" by Vidosav Stevanović ( Official Gazette), "Whaling Station" by Miki Šepard (Official Gazette), "Chain of Freedom" by Zoran Ćirić (Dereta), "Bad Pisac" by Božidar Mandić (Tiski cvet), "Grossity or..." by Slobodan Tišma (Magic Book) , "Cvor na oči" by Draško Sikimić (Lom), "Don't wake me" by Marko Tomaš (Lom), "Yugoslav" by Ana Vučković (Partisan book), "Bible" by Nenad Racković (Laguna), "Tram pilot" by Jovica Aćin (Laguna ), "Since I bought a swan" by Tanja Stupar Trifunović (Archipelago), "A novel about drunkenness" by Igor Marojević (Laguna), "Faded souls" by Mladen Jakovljević (Academic book), "Something that terribly reminds me of life" by Nebojša Milenković (Academic book ), "Room 427" by Jadranka Milenković (Arete), "In the Forests and Mountains" by Milenko Bodirogić (Orfelin), "Dog and Double Bass" by Saša Ilić (Orfelin), "Dry Needle" by Radivoj Šajtinac (Geopoetics), "Istanbul Mosaic" by Andrije Matić (Partizanska knjiga), "The Last Man" by Muharem Bazdulj (Vulkan), "Crna knjiga" by Luka Tripković (Booka), "Little Pioneers, we are sea grass" by Andrea Popov Miletić (Treći trg, Srebrno drvo) and "Rudi" by Nemanja Jovanovic (Partisan book), was published in the holiday issue of NIN. The jury of Nino's criticism award for the best novel of 2019 consists of: president Teofil Pančić and members Branko Kukić, Ivan Milenković, Marjan Čakarević, Marija Nenezić. In the following period, the short and narrowest selection will be announced, and on January 20, the name of the winner will be announced. Last year's winner of the Nino Award was Vladimir Tabašević for the novel "The Delusion of Saint Sebastian", published by Laguna. The Nino Award was first awarded in 1954 to Dobrica Ćosić for the novel "Roots" and until the collapse of Yugoslavia, it was awarded to writers from the entire former state.
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