Viktor Lazić

Viktor Lazić (24 January 1985) is a Serbian writer, traveller and lawyer. He is founder and president of the Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation Adligat.

Biography Lazić was born in 1985 in Belgrade. He was the honors student of the Law High School "9. May" in Belgrade and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

Lazić is authorized translator, holder of a tour guide license, Ambassador of the Serbian Bibliophilic Society, was associate of the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijić" of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (2009–2011), philatelist and numismatist. He is founder and president of the Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation "Adligat", CEO of Library Lazic (since 1882), Book and Travel Museum and Museum of Serbian Literature within this Association.

Viktor Lazic is the heir of two-hundred-year-long tradition of a family library that operated in Vojvodina from 1882 until 1977. During his travels, he spends most of his resources on finding new books and artifacts for this library and Book and Travel Museum in Belgrade.

He is the recipient of a number of awards and certificates. He was the recipient of the Honorary citizen of Voždovac award in 2019 and the Benefactor award in 2020. He is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia.

He speaks English, Russian and German, in addition to his native Serbian. He has visited 100 countries on six continents. He spent ten years travelling the world with a minimum of financial resources. He became known for driving around the globe in an old Russian Lada Niva.

In July 2011 he started five-month journey around the shores of the Black Sea. He visited rarely visited regions of Southeast Turkey and Iraq, continuing to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. On the same journey, he also passed through Russia, Ukraine, Moldova (including Transnistria) and Romania.

The travel novels of Viktor Lazić are known to describe areas «off the beaten track»: he discovers new travel destinations, culture and places of natural beauty that known to few people. In his travel novels, the most important is contact with residents, explaining different world views and different ways of life. Particular media attention in the Balkans was drawn by his description of the life of pirates in Malacca Straits, life of believers of sects of the self-proclaimed Jesus, Vizarion, in Siberia, life of ex-cannibal tribes and matriarchal tribes in Indonesia.

Works Goethe – poetry and truth, Stručna knjiga, Belgrade, Law High School «9. may», Belgrade, 2003 Wondering the Land of Smiles, Bigraf Plus, Belgrade, 2006 with CD Wondering the Land of Smiles (II edition), Treći Trg, Belgrade, 2008 Wondering the Land of Smiles (III edition), Prosveta, Belgrade, 2012 Great Adventure, Press Publishing Group, Belgrade, 2010 In the heart of Sumatra, Laguna, Belgrade, 2011 In the heart of Sumatra (II edition), Laguna, Belgrade, 2012 On the doors of the East, Laguna, Belgrade, 2015 Šta je ljubav?, Savremenik, Belgrade, 2017 Kenija: damari divljine, Laguna, Belgrade, 2024 Dobre duše Sudana, Laguna, Belgrade, 2025