Goran Petrović

Goran Petrović (pronounced [ɡǒran pětroʋitɕ]; 1 July 1961 – 26 January 2024) was a Serbian writer and academic.

Petrović published 115 editions[clarification needed] and the following books: the short prose pieces Saveti za lakški život (Advices for an Easier Living, 1989), the novel Atlas opisan nebom (Atlas Described by Sky, 1993), the collection of short stories Ostrvo i okolne priče (The Island and Stories Around, 1996), the novel Opsada crkve Svetog Spasa (The Siege of the Church of Holy Salvation, 1997), the novel Sitničarnica "Kod srećne ruke" (Sundries Shop "At Lucky Hands", 2000), the collection of short stories Bližnji (Next of Kin, 2002), the selected short prose book Sve što znam o vremenu (Everything I Know About the Time, 2003), the play Skela (The Ferry, 2004), the collection of short stories Razlike (Differences, 2006), the book of short prose Претраживач (Browser, 2007), the novella Ispod tavanice koja se ljuspa (Below the ceiling that is pealing off, 2010) and the play Matica (The Nut,[2] 2011).

Among them is the novel Siege of the Church of Holy Salvation that was dramatized and directed as a play by Kokan Mladenović at the National Theatre[3] of Sombor.

Petrović’s novels and books of selected stories have been published in over fifty editions translated in languages such as French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Macedonian, English and Dutch.

About fifty Petrović’s stories have been published separately in Russian, English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Greek, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Hungarian, while about twenty have been included into anthologies of Serbian short stories in country and abroad.