Ratko Adamović

Ratko Adamović (born October 10, 1942 in Knin) is a Serbian writer.

Adamović studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. Writer and long-term employee of the Association of Writers of Serbia for many decades. He is the author of fourteen novels, four collections of short stories and essays, written in the period from 1971 to 2016. He won the Isidora Sekulić Award in 1997 for the novel Besmrtni Kaleb; was the president of its jury from 2009-2016. He has been awarded the support program for artists of the National Pension of the Republic of Serbia (National Pension of the Republic of Serbia) since 2012. His novel Rope was published in Polish (1982), three of his short stories in German (1979), Lithuanian (1992) and an English anthology. (1998). His work is often associated with Serbian science fiction.

Bibliography (selection) Erkundungen : 28 jugoslawische Erzähler , anthology, edited by Barbara Antkowiak, Volk und Welt, East-Berlin 1979. Serbų novelės (Serbian novels), anthology, Vaga, Vilnius 1992, ISBN 978-5-415-00691-5. Caravan Saraj (Caravanserai), short stories, Belgrade publishing and graphic institute, Belgrade 1993. The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories, edited by Radmila J. Gorup and Nadežda Obradović, University of Pittsburgh Press 1998. In Gardens of Spirit, essays, Prosveta, Belgrade, 2002. Academy of Night, novel, Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Belgrade 2003,