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<\/a><\/p>\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n
\n DRAGO KEKANOVI\u0106<\/span>, a story writer, novelist, poet, playwright and screenplay writer, was born in 1947 in Bratuljevci, near Slavonska Po\u017eega.<\/p>\n He received his education in Po\u017eega, Osijek and Zagreb (Yugoslav Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature). He has been an editor of Studentski list<\/em> (Students\u2019 Magazine<\/em>), Prolog (Prologue)<\/em> and Polet (Verve<\/em>); he has edited and prepared a number of forgotten story writers for the Serbian Cultural Society \u201cProsvjeta\u201d (Education)<\/em>. His longest engagement was as an editor and dramaturge for the ,,Drama Programme<\/em>” of TV Zagreb and\/or Croatian Radio Television.<\/p>\n Kekanovi\u0107 has published the following books: Svjetlost \u0161uma<\/em><\/strong> (Light of the Forests<\/em>, poems, Osijek, 1965), Mehanika no\u0107i<\/strong><\/em>, spisi (Mechanics of the Night, writings, stories, Zagreb, 1971), Ve\u010dera na verandi<\/strong><\/em> Besides the dramas Dionis<\/em> (Dionysus<\/em>, 1975), Karneval cvr\u010daka<\/em> (The Cricket Carnival,<\/em> His stories have been translated into Polish (Zaglada, Cracow, 1985), English, German, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian and Slovenian.<\/p>\n Prizes: ,,Sedam sekretara SKOJ-a”, ,,Oslobo\u0111enje”, ,,Politika”, ,,Mladost”, ,,Vladimir Nazor”, ,,Sava Mrkalj”<\/em>, Vital Book of the Year Award (2013), ,,Borisav Stankovi\u0107”, ,,Du\u0161an Vasiljev”, ,,Branko \u0106opi\u0107”, ,,Grigorije Bo\u017eovi\u0107”, ,,Danko Nikoli\u0107”<\/em> and ,,Andri\u0107 Award”<\/em>.<\/p>\n He lives in Zagreb.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Drago Kekanovi\u0107 has written a dramatic and painful book managing to merge a personal and collective fate, a personal and collective defeat. The war tragedy has been raised to a symbolic and metaphysical level. The lyrical power of the book and its high symbolic suggestiveness is impressive. The skillfullness in weaving the stories and making twists, together with the narrator\u2019s self-awareness of this skill, is impressive. The mastery of individualization and character modelling is impressive. The distance from the hot national topics and composure in storytelling is impressive. A multiply precious book.<\/p>\n Jovan Deli\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n But Kekanovi\u0107 is not a writer of a single narrative theme, a single kind of literary characters, a single intonation and meaning. He is, both in his earlier and his later fiction, poetically very rich, dynamic and versatile.<\/p>\n Marko Nedi\u0107 <\/em><\/p>\n \n Shifting the attention from the expected, in the manner of a great writer, through a symbolic perspective, (…) he has given a meaning to the suffering of those who have lost everything, but are still trying to maintain self-esteem and understanding of the human situation in the sounds of a friendly language and its search for the meaning of life.<\/p>\n Jovan Zivlak<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He causes the reader obsessed with the propriety of one world to feel disgust over hunting, in order to show him that his disgust is nothing but a sly grimace over history from which he wants to be exempt and released of the burden of responsibility.<\/p>\n Vladimir Gvozden<\/em><\/p>\n \n In the lives of many Kekanovi\u0107\u2019 heroes \u2013 exiled from their homeland, deprived of the main supports and led by the destiny which has denied them everything \u2013 memories and talking about what used to be and no longer is, become the only stronghold of life. From this point of view, parallel with talking about human destinies, Kekanovi\u0107 constantly tells us about the story and storytelling.<\/p>\n Aleksandar Jovanovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n A writer, too, can be a chronicler of dramatic events of immediate reality, a profound interpreter of his time.<\/p>\n Mileta A\u0107imovi\u0107 Ivkov<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n (Dinner on the Porch<\/em>, stories, Zagreb, 1975), Ledena \u0161uma i druge kratke pri\u010de<\/em><\/strong> (The Icy Forest and Other Short Stories<\/em>, Zagreb, 1975), Potomak sjena<\/em> <\/strong>(A Descendent of Shadows<\/em>, novel, Zagreb, 1978), Ivanjska no\u0107<\/em> <\/strong>(Midsummer Night<\/em>, novel, Belgrade, 1985), Panonski diptih, dvije pripovijesti<\/strong><\/em> (The Pannonian Diptych, Two Stories<\/em>, Zagreb, 1990), Riblja staza<\/em><\/strong> (The Fish Path<\/em>, novel, Sremski Karlovci, 1997), Ameri\u010dki sladoled<\/strong> <\/em>(American Ice Cream<\/em>, novel, Zagreb, 1998, Sremski Karlovci, 1998), Na nebu<\/em><\/strong> (In the Sky<\/em>, stories, Sremski Karlovci, 2002), Veprovo srce<\/strong> <\/em>(The Boar Heart<\/em>, novel, Belgrade, 2012, 2013), Usvojenje <\/em><\/strong>(The Adoption<\/em>, novellas, Sremski Karlovci, 2012, 2014), Selected Stories<\/em><\/strong> (Sremski Karlovci<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n
\n 1980) and Esekerski zaljubljenici<\/em> (Esseker Devotees<\/em>,1989), Kekanovi\u0107 has authored the screenplays for the films, TV series and TV dramas: Tena<\/em> (1976), Pri\u010de za laku no\u0107 (Goodnight Stories<\/em>, 1978), Hajdu\u010dki gaj (Heroic Outlaw\u2019s Grove<\/em>, 1991), Ispod crte (Below the Line<\/em>, 2005), Konjanik (A Horseman,<\/em> 2005),<\/em> and Lea and Daria<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n