MLADEN JAKOVLJEVIĆ

Mladen Jakovljević was born in 1975 in Novi Sad, where he graduated in English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Philosophy, earned a master’s degree in Literary Studies, and completed his PhD. He teaches English and American literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica. He is a member of the Board of the Department of Literature and Language of Matica Srpska.He has published numerous studies and scholarly papers exploring the interrelationships between reality, individuals, and communities in science fiction, fantasy, and speculative literature more broadly. He is the author of the novels The Twilight Gates (2015), Faded Souls (2019), and When I Return (2021). He has translated into Serbian the Middle English chivalric romance in verse Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Philip K. Dick’s VALIS trilogy (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer), and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tales from Earthsea. He is also co-editor of Literary Speculative Fiction, an annual publication focusing on current Serbian and international literary works in the field of speculative and fantastic literature.