Goran Petrović

Goran Petrović (; 1 July 1961 – 26 January 2024) was a Serbian writer and academic.

Biography Goran Petrović was born in Kraljevo, Serbia. 2011). Some of his novels and stories have been adapted for theatre, television, and radio. Among them is the novel Siege of the Church of Holy Salvation that was dramatized and directed as a play by Kokan Mladenović at the National Theatre of Sombor.

Petrović’s novels and books of selected stories have been published in over fifty editions translated in languages such as French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Macedonian, English and Dutch. About fifty Petrović’s stories have been published separately in Russian, English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Greek, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Hungarian, while about twenty have been included into anthologies of Serbian short stories in country and abroad.

Petrović died on 26 January 2024, at the age of 62.

Awards Goran Petrović received many awards and prizes including the NIN Award for the Novel of the Year, the Andrić Prize, the Meša Selimović Award, the scholarship for literature from the Borislav Pekić Foundation, Prosveta Award, Serbian National Library Award for the most read book of the year, Golden Bestseller Award, Borisav Stanković Award.

Works Saveti za lakši život (1989) Atlas opisan nebom (1993) Ostrvo i okolne priče (1996) Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa (1997) Sitničarnica Kod srećne ruke (2000) Bližnji (2002) Sve što znam o vremenu (2003) Skela (2004) Razlike (2006) Pretraživač (2007) Ispod tavanice koja se ljuspa (2010) Matica (2011) Unutrašnje dvorište (2018) Papir sa vodenim znakom (2022) Ikonostas (2022)