Labud Dragić
Labud Dragić 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.
So far, his texts were published in literary magazines such as Polja, Književna reč, Nova Zora, Trag, the Serbian Canadian weekly newspaper Novine Toronto 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 for his novel Kukavičja pilad. 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.
The multiple laureate already commented on prizes many years ago in an article of Hereticus magazine as follows:
