Predrag Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Марковић; born 7 December 1955) is a Serbian politician, author and historian.
Political career
Marković was
President of the National Assembly of Serbia
The president of the National Assembly of Serbia ('' sr, Председник Народне скупштине Србије / Predsednik Narodne skupštine Srbije'') is the presiding officer of the National Assembly of Serbia. The president ...
from 2004 to 2007 and the acting
President of Serbia
The president of Serbia ( sr, Председник Србије, Predsednik Srbije), officially styled as the President of the Republic ( sr, Председник Републике, Predsednik Republike) is the head of state of Serbia.
The curr ...
within
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
between 4 March and 11 July 2004. In addition, he has been the president of the
G17 Plus Management Board, the President of the G17 Plus Political Council and member of their Executive Board. In 2003, he was chosen as an honorary president of the G17 Plus Party.
During Marković's tenure as President of the National Assembly, the National Assembly unanimously returned the
coat of arms
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,
flag
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and
anthem
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of Serbia on 17 August 2004
and on 5 June 2006 announced Serbia's sovereignty.
Marković was the
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia
The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia ( sr, link=, Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије, Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije; abbr. ПОКС or POKS) is a monarchist and national-conservative political party ...
candidate for
Mayor of Belgrade
The Mayor of Belgrade ( sr, Градоначелник Београда / ''Gradonačelnik Beograda'') is the head of the City of Belgrade (the capital and largest city of Serbia). The Mayor acts on behalf of the city, and performs an executiv ...
during the
2018 Belgrade City Assembly election. He finished with 4,291 votes.
Literary career
Marković is a member of
PEN, the Serbian Literary Society and is the former president of the Association of Publishers of Serbia and Montenegro. From 1993 to 2013, he was the owner of the ''Stubovi kulture'' publishing house and has written six books. He speaks
Serbian
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* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
,
Russian, and
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
.
Marković is a contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle (
Canada
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).
Predrag Marković Urban Book Circle bio
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Personal life
Marković is known for keeping details from his personal life private.
Published books
* ''L‘imun. Isceđen'' (1982)
* ''Morali bi doći nasmejani lavovi'' (1983)
* ''Otmenost duše'' (1989)
* ''Zavodnik ništavila'' (2017)
* ''Kovčeg komedijant'' (2018)
* ''David protiv Otužnog Zloduha'' (2020)
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Predrag
1955 births
Living people
People from Paraćin
Serbian writers
Serbian monarchists
20th-century Serbian historians
Serbian book publishers (people)
Serbian literary critics
Government ministers of Serbia
G17 Plus politicians
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia politicians
Presidents of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Presidents of Serbia within Yugoslavia
University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Science alumni