Violeta Ivković ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Виолета Ивковић; born 1957 in

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) is a

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journalist and writer.

Biography

Violeta Ivković studied at the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the

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and is the mother of three children. After completing her studies, she pursued a career in journalism with a focus on

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. She wrote articles for magazines such as '' Mikro PC World'', '' SciTech'' and ''Com&GSM'', and is the author of contributions to Zoran Modli’s radio shows '' Modulacije'' and ''Zair''. Although she is retired, she continues lecturing at the annual ''Workshop for

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'' (Radionica za kreativnog pisanja „PričArt”) initiated by Zoran Zivković and first held in 2011. Her first work ''Friends'' is an email diary set in the period March to June 1999 during the

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and its prologue states: ''Its format is an electronic diary that deals with thoughts, fears, feelings, events that cannot be shared even with those closest to us, for many understandable reasons''. Her most recent novel ''The Blogger'' talks about the teenager Anna, who writes a

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expressing her feelings, desires and dreams. Anna lives with her mother and sister. Her parents are divorced, but Dad visits them often. The teen misses the time when they all still lived together. An English version of ''Friends'' was published by herself on

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and an English excerpt from the novel ''The Island'' is available on the website of the magazine ''

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''. A Serbian selection of her articles of the magazine Mikro PC World can be read online on the website of Zoran Modli. Ivković's latest book ''The Blogger'' is her most successful book to date with two editions.

Awards

Ivković is laureate of the Mali Nemo Award 2009 for her novel ''Dining Room''.

Works

*''Moji su drugovi'' (Friends), self-publication, Todra printing, Belgrade 1999. *''Život u ljubičastom: internet priče'' (Life in Purple: stories from the internet), self-publication, Todra, Belgrade 2001. *''Trpezarija'' (Dining Room), Mali Nemo, Pančevo 2009, . *''Ogrizak noći'' (The Scrap of the Night), Udruženje građanja Čekić, Belgrade 2010, . *''Ostrvo'' (The Island), Polaris, Belgrade 2013, .English excerpt
on Words Without Borders, retrieved on 2018-09-28. *''Blogerka'' (The Blogger), Klett, Belgrade 2018, . *''Beton'' (Concrete),

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, Makart, Belgrade 2019, .

References

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