Zoran Bognar


Zoran Bognar is a Serbian poet and writer.

Life and work

Bognar is considered to be one of the most creative and renowned representatives of contemporary Serbian poetry. More than 300 of his essays and literary reviews have already been published in many Serbian literary journals and newspapers such as Borba, Dnevnik and Politika, and more than over 200 essays, reviews and studies have also been published about his work in recent decades, also a monograph Athletic pilgrimage to the Elysian fields of Zoran Bognar by Vladan Panković and Nikica Banić, both from Inđija. Bognar has been working as literary editor of the publishing house Dereta for several years; he is current president of jury of the Miroslav Dereta Award since 2006, president of the Foundation for Preservation of Fine Arts – Ars Longa, member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and the PEN of Bosnia Hercegovina. The editions New Deluge, New Noah’s Ark, Elysian Trilogy and Constellations Under The Skin have also been published in Italian, Spanish, French and Macedonian translations, selected poems in English and German editions, in the International Poetry Review of the University of North Carolina, in German, Polish and French anthologies, in the Austrian and German literary journals manuskripte and Akzente, and in Ariel in Swedish. In 2002, the poet was Artist in Residence of Villa Waldberta in Feldafing. In addition to numerous Serbian literary awards, he received the Italian Vannelli Award 1997 of the same named publishing house in Verona, the Montenegrin Mediterranean Lion 1998 and the German Hubert Burda Award 1999. He lives in Belgrade.

Serbian Awards