The book "Children" by Milena Marković is the winner of the 68th Nino Award for the best novel in the Serbian language, the jury announced today at the traditional ceremony held at noon in the Belgrade Hotel Moskva.
Published by "Lom", the novel "Children" tells about one life which, like every life, is made up of several lives, and now all those lives are held together by a story told in verse, without punctuation marks and without a capital letter. transmitted by Tanjug.
The decision was made by a jury chaired by Teofil Pančić and members: literary critic Marija Nenezić, poet Branko Kukić, writer Ivan Milenković and poet Marjan Čakarević.
In addition to the chosen one, among the shortlisted novels were also "Sampas" by the young Montenegrin author Ilija Đurović, "That which cannot be talked about" by Elvedin Nezirović, "The Spanish Boot" by Vladimir Kopicl, "The Mokrina Chronicles" by Srđan V. Tešin and "Afterword" by David Albahari.
However, the jury singled out the work "Children", which Marković writes in verse on more than 150 pages, without periods and commas, it talks about children, childhood, family, ancestors and descendants, but also about what it means to be a mother, daughter, son. ..
This is Milena Marković's first work after seven years, and so far she has published the following books: "Dog koji je pojo sunce", "Ista ima tarjane", "Three plays", "Crna kašika", "Bird's eye on the stall", "Before before everything starts spinning", "Poems", "Dramas", "Songs for the Living and the Dead", "Dragon Slayers"...
Several of her plays have been staged, and she has received several awards, including the Special Award in Vienna for the best plays from the former Yugoslavia, three Sterija Theater awards for the best dramatic text, as well as the "Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz" drama creation award. , and awards bearing the names of Todor Manojlović, Đura Jakšić, Miloš Crnjanski, Biljana Jovanović....
The Nin Award has been awarded since 1954, and last year's winner was Svetislav Basara. The patrons are Sberbank and one domestic, as well as two foreign companies, which wish to remain anonymous.
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