Mileta PRODANOVIC

2001
  • Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Serbia and Montenegro
Serbian

Mileta PRODANOVIC (b. 1959, Belgrade) is currently vice dean of the School of Painting at Belgrade's University of Arts; he is also lecturer in Studies of Culture and Gender at the Alternative Educational Network in Belgrade. Since 1980, Mr. Prodanovic has held more than thirty one-man exhibitions in the former Yugoslavia and in Europe. Most recent among his ten books are the short stories and travel fragments The Eye on the Road; two editions, also published in Croatia, of This Could Be Your Lucky Day; the novels Red Scarf, the Silk One and Dance the Monster on My Gentle Music. The US Department of State is providing his grant to the IWP.

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Happening Now

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

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