Balša Brkovic
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Balša Brković (born in Podgorica
Podgorica
Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...

, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

 - then Titograd, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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 - in 1966) is a Montenegrin writer, essayist and theatre critic.

He graduated from the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
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 Faculty of Philosophy
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
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. He is an editor for the Vijesti
Vijesti
Vijesti is a Montenegrin daily newspaper.The paper is published and managed by an entity called Daily Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Podgorica...

 newspaper for its culture section and is deeply involved with preservation of the original Montenegrin language. He is a member of the Montenegrin PEN Center
Montenegrin PEN Center
The Montenegrin PEN Center is the national chapter of the International PEN in Montenegro. It was formed in 1990, as one-party Communist rule in what was then Yugoslavia was ending....

. He was also a speaker at the International Festival for short stories in 2009.

Brković has published collections of poetry: Konji jedu breskve (1985), Filip boje srebra (1991), Rt Svete Marije (1993), Contrapposto (1998) and Dvojenje (2001) and a novel Privatna galerija (2002).

His father Jevrem Brković
Jevrem Brkovic
Jevrem Brković is a Montenegrin writer , historian and a cultural activist...

is also a well-known Montenegrin writer.

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