Miljenko Jergović

Miljenko Jergović
Miljenko Jergović
Born 28 May 1966 (1966-05-28) (age 45)
Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation Short story writer, novelist and columnist
Nationality Bosnian
Ethnicity Bosnian Croat
Alma mater University of Sarajevo
Period 1988–present

Miljenko Jergović (born 1966 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia, having moved there in 1993.

Jergović has established himself as a writer in ex Yugoslavia, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.[citation needed]

His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You Say It's an Angel, 2000).

His debut "Opservatorij Varšava" won him the Ivan Goran Kovačić Award (by Vjesnik) and the Mak Dizdar Award. Jergović's 1994 book Sarajevski Marlboro was awarded the Erich-Maria Remarque Peace Prize, and the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Award.

Jergović is also a journalist and has published a collection of his articles in the acclaimed Historijska čitanka (A Reader in History, 1996).

Jergović writes a column in the Serbian daily Politika, for Vreme magazine and a regulat column in the Croatian daily Jutarnji list entitled Sumnjivo lice (trans. "suspicious character", lit. "suspicious face").[1] Jergović has espoused various liberal stances in his columns, including a criticism of chauvinism among what is usually considered the liberal left[2] and an unusually open support for a liberal political candidate.[3]

His novel Buick Riviera was made into a movie in 2008 by filmmaker Goran Rušinović, and the two were in turn awarded the Golden Arena for Best Screenplay.

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