The National Museum is once again awarding the literary prize “Danko Popović.”
The jury, consisting of Jovan Delić, Aleksandar Jovanović, and Marko Nedić, has decided that the recipient of the award for 2017 is Radovan Beli Marković for his novel The Blue Gate.
The award will be ceremoniously presented at the “Under Danko’s Linden” event on August 26 at 7 p.m., at the Small Stage in Bukovička Banja Park.
Nenad Jezdić
On this occasion, excerpts from the award-winning work, as well as from Danko Popović’s novels, will be read by dramatic artist Nenad Jezdić.
About the award-winning work…
“The Blue Gate, like his previous prose, is distinguished by a strong authorial sensitivity to language and literary style and their great semantic and transformative possibilities. The reality of the Valjevo and Kolubara regions, and their real and mystified spaces, are shaped in this novel through a fertile interweaving and clash of different levels of subjective reality and rich individual stylistic means, crafted into a narrative text of remarkable artistic suggestiveness…”