Milos Zivkovic
Miloš Živković was born in Belgrade on December 12, 1974. He developed a literary and journalistic career in Serbia, combining fiction with newspaper writing and commentary. His prose frequently draws on historical, cultural, and social subjects, which he treats through irony, satire, grotesque situations, and comic reversals.
Živković graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His education in the dramatic arts preceded a career that combined literary writing, journalism, and participation in discussions of satire in journalism and literature.
Živković began his journalistic career at Radio Studio B. He later became a columnist for the Serbian daily newspaper Danas, where he has written on political, historical, cultural, and social subjects in a distinctive satirical style. Alongside journalism, he established himself as a fiction writer with the story collection Crvene priče and the novels Bife Frojd and Samoubistvo u Orijent ekspresu. At the invitation of the British newspaper The Guardian, he participated in seminars devoted to satire in journalism and literature. Bife Frojd was shortlisted for the NIN Award, while Samoubistvo u Orijent ekspresu was a finalist in the VBZ competition for the best unpublished novel in 2023.
Published the story collection Crvene priče and the novels Bife Frojd and Samoubistvo u Orijent ekspresu.
Bife Frojd was shortlisted for the NIN Award.
Samoubistvo u Orijent ekspresu reached the final of the VBZ competition for the best unpublished novel in 2023.
Participated in seminars on satire in journalism and literature at the invitation of The Guardian.
(A satirical novel about a troubled protagonist who invest...)
2023(A novel set partly in Belgrade in the 1960s, combining hi...)
2013(A collection of stories by Miloš Živković, published by Č...)
2005Živković has expressed the view that happiness and sadness are equally important human emotions and has rejected simplistic literature centered on instant happiness, limitless optimism, and effortless enrichment. His fiction and commentary approach social myths, ideological certainties, and public self-deception through satire and irony.
His published commentary and interviews present a strongly satirical, ironic, and skeptical literary outlook. He has publicly criticized patriotic, religious, and dilettantish forms of political and cultural opportunism.
Quotes from others about the person
Arsen Dedić reportedly encouraged Živković to continue writing after reading Bife Frojd, telling him to write against everyone.
