Aleksandar Novaković

Aleksandar Novaković (Serbian-Cyrillic: Александар Новаковић; born 9 January 1975 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer, playwright, historian, musician and political activist.

Aleksandar Novaković grew up in his hometown and attended the XII Belgrade Gymnasium in Voždovac city quarter, graduating with a maturity diploma in 1994.

Reading Novaković's novels is a time travel into the past, the future or the present, but in any case they usually include stories of people and their personal way to falsehood and truth of own life in search of happiness and authentic self-fulfillment.

No matter, whether a reader is accompanying the Serbian journalist on his trip to Scotland like in the novel Celtic tales or meeting a young playwright like in the novel Glacier, studying a future despot and his power politics in the year 2030 in the book Novo Smederevo or getting told the story about the Glorious One Duško Popović, a volunteer of Spanish civil war with biographical details from the real life of Božidar Petrović, all works of the writer are worth to be discovered.

The award-winning novel The Leader tells about an unscrupulous and inhumane officer of the Royal Serbian Army and his handling of his recent past (Balkan wars).

Aleksandar Novaković's short stories, satires, poems, reviews, political articles and essays has also been published in newspapers and magazines such as NIN, Književne vertikale, Koraci, Lipar, Reč, Polja, Zbornik Matice srpske, Afirmator, Beton, Povelja, Kvartal, Braničevo and some others.