Jovica Acin (b. 1946, Serbia), a short-story writer and essayist, is the author of twenty books. Several times he was sentenced because of dissenting opinion and so-called insult against the head of state. In hard and oppressive Yugoslav times he was the editor of the books such as The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and likely one of the best Memoirs of the Yugoslav camp called The Desert Island, by Dragoljub Jovanovic.
For the moment, he lives in Belgrade, Serbia.
Good to know: Acin’s original artistic impulse was to be an alchemist. Before he was a published writer, Acin’s only other jobs were in bookstores and publishing houses. His first bookstore job was at age 13.
Short story collections:
The Long Shadows of the Short Shadows (1991, 21997, 32003)
To Be Destroyed After My Death (1993, 22000)
Butterfly Dreambook (1996)
Unearthly Phenomena (1999)
Hovering Objects (2002)
Whoever Wants to Love Has to Die (2002)
Little Erotic Dictionary of Serbian Language (2003)
Diary About A Vagina [novella] (2005)
Read in Your Eyes (2006, 22007)
The Walk on the Roof: Collected Franz Kafka’s Drawings, with a few stories told by these drawings (2007)
Forthcoming an essay collection: A Naked Storyteller: On All Kinds of Things Lost and Found (to be published in September 2008)