Dragan Velikic

Dragan Velikic

Dragan Velikiić (Belgrade, 7 July 1953) is a Serbian novelist, short story wtiter, essayist and former Ambasador to Austria. He's one of the best known writers of modern Serbia. His influences include Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ivo Andrić and Aleksandar Tišma among other authors. Velkić's best known works are the novels Ruski prozor and Islednik, for both of which he won the NIN award.