Ratko Adamović

The collection Gardens of Spirit (U vrtovima duha) contains essays on Marguerite Yourcenar, Fernand Braudel, Béla Hamvas, John Cowper Powys, Alexander Genis, Paul Virilio, Daniel J. Boorstin, Gaston Bachelard, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacques Le Goff, Paulo Coelho, Christoph Ransmayr and others.

He is recipient of the artists supporting program National Pension of the Republic of Serbia (Nacionalna penzija Republike Srbije) since 2012.

His novel Rope (Konopac) has been published in Polish (1982), three of his short stories in German (1979), Lithuanian (1992) and English anthologies (1998).

In any case, he was participant of a political-cultural event in his real birthplace in July 1990, which became capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina a year later.

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, he obviously talked to an Australian journalist in Klub književnika about Kosovo, published by Green Left Weekly with the headline: Sexism and Racism in the Balkans.