Svetislav Basara is this year's winner of NIN's award for the novel "Kontraendorphin", the media reported.
In addition to being the 67th NIN laureate, he also received the prestigious literary award for novel of the year in 2006 for the novel "The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease".
In addition to him, the Montenegrin writer Ognjen Spahić was shortlisted for his novel "Pod oba sunca", and among the finalists were the following novels: "Freedom of Speech" by Vladan Matijević, "What you sleep on the floor" by Darko Cvijić, "Kontraendorfin" by Svetislav Basara , "People without graves" by Enes Halilović, "Beautiful ruins" by Savo Stijepović and "Nothing is nobody's" by Bojan Savić Ostojić.
Due to the epidemiological situation, which is still high-risk, the announcement of the winner of the most important literary award for a novel written in the Serbian language was organized online, via the Zoom application.
The sponsors of NIN's award are Sberbank, as well as one domestic and two foreign companies that wish to remain anonymous.
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