Sladjana Nina Perkovic

Slađana Nina Perković (Banja Luka, 1981) is a writer and journalist. She graduated in journalism in Banja Luka and completed postgraduate studies in political science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University as a recipient of a scholarship from the Government of France. She has worked as a journalist and correspondent for numerous media outlets in the countries of the former Yugoslavia and across Europe. She divides her time between Paris, Belgrade, and Banja Luka .

She is the author of the short story collection Cooking (2017) and the novels In the Ditch (2020) and Lijek protiv melankolije (2025). Through twelve stories in which everyday life becomes a space of absurdity, dark humour, and unease, Cooking presents strong female characters striving to reshape the reality in which they live. In the Ditch tells a darkly humorous and grotesque story about a family brought together by a funeral and the division of an inheritance, illuminating the absurdity of everyday life and the consequences of the traumas that shape its characters’ lives. The novel was longlisted for the NIN Award and was among the contenders for the regional Meša Selimović Award; in 2022, it received a Special Mention from the jury of the European Union Prize for Literature. Lijek protiv melankolije unfolds a multilayered story about family, memory, and the weight of the past, exploring the ways in which personal and collective trauma shape individual identity.

The work of Slađana Nina Perković has been translated into Italian, French, English, German, Bulgarian, Albanian, and Macedonian.