Dragana Kršenković Brković

Dragana Kršenković Brković is a Montenegrin writer.

Biography Kršenkovic Brković graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and from the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU). TV Belgrade screened her play - Vrele kapi in 1981. She wrote this play for the entrance examination at FDU.

As the Wars in the Balkans erupted, she moved from Belgrade, Serbia, to Podgorica, Montenegro. There, Kršenković Brković with her husband Tomislav Brković established a puppet theater The Blue Lagoon. Details of this theater can be found in the bilingual monograph Puppet Theatre Blue Lagoon (Podgorica, 2019)

The list of her residential programs includes: in the US (the apexart New York City Fellowship, NYC, 2014; Art OMI: Writers, Ledig House, NY, 2017; Hungary (Pecs Writers Program, Pecs, 2013), and Austria (Writers in Residence program, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, 2011).

Kršenković Brković was a Hubert Humphrey fellow 2005-06, which is a Fulbright Exchange Program. She spent a year in California and Washington DC, US. She also received an Austrian Government grant in order to carry out research at the University of Graz and at the Institut für Slawistik in Austria in 2008.

Besides, she participated in Rhodes, Greece (1st International Forum for a Culture of Peace by Mediterranean Women Creators, under the auspice of UNESCO ); the 23rd Biennial of Illustration /BIB/ (Bratislava, 2011); the Bologna Book Fair (Bologna, 2011), the Goethe-Institut Munich (Leipzig Book Fair 2023), etc.

Her plays are performed in many Balkan countries. Four of her plays are set texts for elementary schools in Montenegro and Macedonia. Her book The Genie of Lake Manito was selected for the 2011 White Ravens Awards by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, Germany. She has been nominated for Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) ten times (2008-2018). Two feature movies, Hozentarus (2018) and The Magic Key (2020), based on her fairy tales with the same titles, have been filmed by Public Broadcasting Services of Montenegro (RTCG).

Her stories have been published in many international magazines: October Hill Magazine, The Bosphorus Review of Books, Buchkultur, Blesok, Sarajevo Notebook, Folia linguistica et litteraria, etc.

Kršenković Brković has published three novels, two story collections, two literary studies, and several books of fairy tales.