[1] Nogo was born on 13 May 1945, after the end of the Second World War to parents Petar and Stana, in Borija near Kalinovik (in the old Herzegovina region of Zagorje) into a family descending from the Kuči tribe in Montenegro.

As a boy, he moved from his native Borija to Sarajevo and began his education there.

He later received his master's degree at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.

From 2000, he taught poetry and literary criticism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of East Sarajevo.

On 30 March 2012, the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers of Serbia proposed him as a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.