Jovan Nikolić (writer)

Jovan Nikolić (born Belgrade, 1955) is a Serbian Romani writer, currently resident in Germany. He is best known in Germany for Bela vrana, crno jagnje ("White Crow, Black Sheep") published in German translation by Bärbel Schulte as Weißer Rabe, schwarzes Lamm.[1][2]

Jovan Nikolić

His parents moved around Yugoslavia, following his father's work as a musician, until returning at the age of 12 to the family's home town of Čačak. Nikolić returned to Belgrade in his 20s to work as performer and singer at nightclubs and freelance journalist. Nikolić moved to Germany following the NATO bombing of Serbia.

Works

Novels
  • Gost niotkuda (A Guest from Nowhere, in Serbian and Roma language, 1982)
  • Đurđevdan (St George's Day, 1987)
  • Neću da se rodim (I Don’t Want to Be Born, 1991)
  • Oči pokojnog jagnjeta (The Eyes of the Late Lamb, 1993)
  • Telo i okolina (Body and Environment, 1994)
  • Mala noćna muzika (A Little Night Music, 1998)
  • Soba s točkom (The Room with a Wheel, 2004, German edition, 2011 in Serbian).
  • Bela vrana, crno jagnje (White Crow, Black Sheep) 2003

Song lyrics and poetry

He has written lyrics for Radomir Mihailović aka "Točak" and the groups Generacija 5, Zabranjeno pušenje and the romani band Ođila. His lyric Bubamara was featured in the film Black Cat, White Cat of Emir Kusturica.

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gollark: Practice doing things under time pressure?
gollark: Differentiate it, substitute x=3 into that, set dy/dx to 0, solve.
gollark: Oh, actually just > 0 since it's a denominator, yes.
gollark: The $9-x^2$ bit has to have a value >= 0. So solve that and work out for which values it is >= 0.

References
  1. Cultural Centre of Novi Sad
  2. Ceo Keln čita Jovana 2011


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