A dedicated literary evening Radoslav Petković, the writer of contemporary Serbian literature, the 25th winner of the "Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša" festival award for literary creativity, will be held tonight at Poets' Square in Budva at 21 p.m.
Members of the jury for the "Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša" award will speak at Poets' Square: Nadežda Čačinović, Slavica Perović i Mihajlo Pantić (president), and the award winner will address the audience via video recording.
This award is given biennially and was awarded for 2019/2020. year. In the explanation of the jury's decision, it is stated that, after several electronic consultations, at the final session, they made the decision unanimously and decided that the winner of the award for 2019/2020. becomes novelist, storyteller, essayist and translator Radoslav Petković (1953).
"The jury expresses its satisfaction that it had the opportunity to, with the 'Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša' award, once again draw attention to the value of the literary work of Radoslav Petković, on one level, such as (of Stefan Mitrov) Kisses, certainly a writer of the Mediterranean, and at the same time congratulates the winner in the belief that with his decision, in a worthy way, he extends and raises the reputation of the multi-decade award that serves to honor the ancient city of Budva", the announcement states.
The essence of Petković's prose work, they add, could be described with the phrase "history in a new key", since the writer approaches the questions of cross-sections of history and individual human existence, which he mostly writes about in his books, by creating basically an anti-epic strategy of linguistic building blocks through storytelling. procedures.
"The core of Petković's prose oeuvre is made up of three outstanding novels: 'Shadows on the Wall', 'Destiny and Comments' and 'Perfect Remembrance of Death', of which the novel Destiny and Comments, which has been translated multiple times and won awards, was also included in the list of the top ten novels awarded with the Nino Prize. This core is surrounded by other novels by the author: "The Road to Dvigrad", "Records from the Year of Strawberries", story books "Report on the Plague" and "The Man Who Lived in Dreams", as well as breviaries of essayistic prose "Ogled o mački", " Speaking of Michelangelo', 'Byzantine Internet' and 'The Use of Elves'", the announcement adds and concludes that Petković, like significant writers of the near and far tradition, in his novels, short stories and essays put the historicity of the narrative construction in the foreground.
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