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Labud Dragić (
Serbian-Cyrillic: Лабуд Драгић; born 24 October 1954, in Ljevišta,
SR Montenegro,
SFR Yugoslavia) is a
Serbian writer of
Montenegrin origin.
Life and Work
Labud Dragić was born in Ljevišta, a very small village of
Morača
Highland in
Montenegrin
municipality of Kolašin. Dragić attended a
gymnasium in
Sarajevo with
maturity diploma in 1973, then he studied
literary science with a focus on
literary theory at the
Philological Faculty of
Belgrade's University and graduated in 1979. The writer is current member of the
Association of Writers of Serbia. Dragić has already been a frequent visitor to
Serbian Canadian community in
Ontario. The artist lives in
New Belgrade.
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So far, his
texts were published in
literary magazines such as
Polja (
Serbian: Fields),
Književna reč (Serbian: Literary Word), Nova
Zora (Serbian: New Zora), Trag (Serbian: Trace), the
Serbian Canadian weekly
newspaper Novine
Toronto (Serbian: Toronto News) and some others. In 2017, he received the
Isidora Sekulić Award, the
Momo Kapor Award, the
Svetozar Ćorović Award and the
Seal of Time Award for Science and
Social Theory (
Pečat vremena za nauku i društvenu teoriju) for his
novel Kukavičja pilad (Cuckoo Chicks). The plot and the fate of its characters deals with the events at the time of last Montenegrin King
Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš towards the end of
World War I. The title of the novel has a
metaphorical meaning: the
Serbian word cuckoo can be used
synonymously for coward.
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The multiple laureate already commented on prizes many years ago in an article (Literary Evaluation of the Day) of Hereticus magazine as follows:
I have never thought about prizes, nor did I deal with that form of social games.
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Bibliography (selection)
- Koji nemaju pečata : pripovetke (Those Who Do Not Have A Stamp :
short stories),
Rad, Belgrade 1985.
- Sram u katedrali : pripovetke (Shame In Cathedral : short stories), Rad, Belgrade 1990,
ISBN
86-09-00280-2.
- Dolinom senki (Valley Shadows;
novel), Pobjeda,
Titograd 1994,
ISBN
86-487-0002-7.
- Divlji anđeo (Wild Angel; short stories), Prosveta, Belgrade 1999.
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- U zatonima
Lete (In
Backwater Of Lethe; short stories),
Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 2003,
ISBN
86-379-0849-7.
- Krv i voda (Blood And Water; novel), Edit print, Belgrade 2007,
ISBN
978-86-17-15035-6.
- Bele noći
sivog sokola (White Nights Of Grey Falcon; novel), Službeni glasnik, Belgrade 2013,
ISBN
978-86-519-0902-6.
- Kukavičja pilad (Cuckoo Chicks; novel), Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 2016,
ISBN
978-86-379-1328-3.
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References
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^ Article on Labud Dragić in: Ko je ko u Srbiji '96: biografski leksikon, Bibliofon, Belgrade 1996 (
World Biographical Information System Online), retrieved on 2017-10-12.
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Voyage to Ontario in April 2018, notification of
RTS, retrieved on 2018-06-03.
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Serbian Heritage Academy of Canada, official website, retrieved 2019-01-07.
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Gozba mrtvih (Feast of the Dead, Polja No. 395-396, 1992; PDF) on the Website by Polja, retrieved 2017-10-15.
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Bogojavljene (
Epiphany, Polja No. 407-408, 1998; PDF) on the Website by Polja, retrieved on 2017-10-15
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^ Seobe (Migration) in:
Književna reč No. 511, 2000.
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^ Osveta (Revenge) in:
Trag No. 2-2-8/2006 (p. 46) on the Website by the City Library
Danilo Kiš
Vrbas, retrieved on 2017-10-19.
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Notification on the Official Website by
RTS, retrieved on 2017-10-12.
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Notification on the Official Website by Slobodna Hercegovina, retrieved on 2017-10-12.
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Article on the novel by
Večernje novosti, retrieved on 2017-10-17.
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Notification on the Website by
Pečat, retrieved on 2017-10-22.
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Interview,
Serbian RTV Montenegro,
YouTube, retrieved 2019-06-05.
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^ Article in
Hereticus, Vol. III/2005/No. 2 (page 62), retrieved 2018-06-30.
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Review by Mira N. Matarić (
World Literature Today No. 76/2002) on the Website
TheFreeLibrary, retrieved on 2017-10-22.
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^ Review by Nadežda Obradović, Journal of
North American Society for Serbian Studies,
Vol. 15/1/2001 (p. 165),
Google Drive, retrieved 2019-01-07.
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Dragić's falsehoods in the award-winning novel - propaganda against Montenegro,
pamphlet by Novak Adžić (
SDP), retrieved on 2018-06-30.
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Catalogue of
National Library of Serbia, retrieved on 2017-10-12.
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