Balša Brković

Balša Brković (Serbian Cyrillic: Балша Брковић) (born 1966 in Podgorica, Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin writer, essayist and theatre critic. He is also editor of cultural section of daily newspaper Vijesti, and one of the prominent members of the social liberal opposition party United Reform Action (URA).

Biography

He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He is an editor for the Vijesti newspaper for its culture section and is deeply involved with preservation of the original Montenegrin language.[1] He is a member of the Montenegrin PEN Center. He was also a speaker at the International Festival for short stories in 2009.[2] In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[3]

Brković published collections of poetry: Konji jedu breskve (1985), Filip boje srebra (1991), Rt Svete Marije (1993), Contrapposto (1998) and Dvojenje (2001) and novels Privatna galerija (2002)[4] and Paranoja u Podgorici (2010).

His father Jevrem Brković is also a well-known Montenegrin writer.

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References
  1. "New characters in the Montenegrin language?" - DW-World
  2. "Ill with incurable youth" - Pobjeda Online
  3. Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  4. "Laureate Balsa Brkovic" - Pobjeda Online
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