Mirjana Novaković
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Mirjana Novaković (Serbian-Cyrillic: Мирјана Новаковић; born 28 April 1966) is a Serbian writer.
She was born in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia.
Mirjana Novaković is one of the most popular female representatives of contemporary Serbian literature.[citation needed]
The novel Fear And His Servant is represented at the international book market with translations into French (2005), English (2009 and 2017), Macedonian and Arabic (2013), Russian (2014) and Chinese (2015). The first English edition (2009) was published by Geopoetika publishing in Belgrade and Peter Owen publishing from London published a second edition in the same year due to its great success, and in 2017 even a third edition took place. The novel’s dramatized version premiered at BELEF Summer Festival 2003 co-operated by Atelje 212 in Kalemegdan Fortress. The novel Tito Has Died has already been published in Bulgarian (2014) and Greek (2014). She received the Isidora Sekulić Award 2000 for Fear And His Servant and the Lazar Komarčić Award 2005 (best science-fiction novel) for Johann’s 501. All these three mentioned works has been nominated for the final selections of the NIN Award. Mirjana Novaković was participant of the Leipzig Book Fair 2010, the Neue Rundschau published her short story What Is Lost (Što je izgubljeno) in the same year.[1][2][3][4]
