The novel was written on Angelina Jolie's iPad

The novel "Blank" Fedje Štukan, was presented today at the 16th International Podgorica Book Fair, and the interview with the author was conducted by Ksenija Rakočević.

Expressing satisfaction over the fact that the Podgorica fair is becoming an increasingly mature manifestation and that it gathers more and more creators, she also pointed out that Štukan's autobiographical debut is much more than an autobiographical novel and that it meets all literary and theoretical criteria, thus positioning itself as a serious literary text.

"I didn't take any form from anyone, it's completely free style writing, I didn't want to deal with any kind of literature, if I managed to do it, then I'm glad about it", said Štukan and pointed out that he didn't want anything with the novel neither to say nor to order.

"I just wanted to get out of myself what I carry inside me. Even the name 'Blank' came about completely spontaneously, even stupidly, because I'm all the time on the iPad that she gave me Angelina Jolie, I literally wrote in a blank document. But blank as a term still means a lot of things. Each use of the term 'blank' has many meanings," said Štukan.

The novel was created spontaneously, as stated, even "involuntarily" it was originally intended as a synopsis for the film, and the author wrote down the reading as a kind of diary.

"It was a manuscript of about a hundred pages, I gave it to a friend who asked me to publish it. I didn't want it at all, but later I realized that I wanted to leave a testimony to my daughter firsthand. Children should know who their parents are ", he stated.

Feđa Štukan, a man with a very stormy life story, lived in Kotor for a time in his youth, for which he is bound by memories of a great love, which did not end in a movie.

It was the period from 1990 until the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, when he joined the special units of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After two years of hard fighting, he left the army, refusing to fight in what he says was a "religious war". He managed to leave the army by pretending to be mentally disturbed, went to Germany and did not return to Sarajevo until the war was over.

The special curiosity related to this unusual edition is that "Blank" is included in many school programs throughout the region, and it is in the process of becoming part of the school curriculum in Montenegro, and an even greater curiosity is that his novel is reading for study not only in the theory of literature, but also in sociology and psychology.

The autobiographical novel of the actor Feđa Štukan could rightly be classified as a history textbook. It was written at the persuasion of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a possible material for a feature film, about a man who is from a sniper in special units in war, a homeless heroin addict in peace, all the way to the spotlight of a Hollywood A production.