Milovan Stanković
Milovan Stanković (Serbian-Cyrillic: Милован Станковић; born 1969, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and electrical engineer. Biography. Stanković studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Belgrade's University. He is employed as an electrical engineer at Telekom Srbija. Stanković published a business profile on LinkedIn (BT Parison Ltd.) without indication to his artistic work, there is a professional profile with contact details at ZoomInfo and his personal website represents the literary work only. He lives in his native place. The author of two novels, three volumes with poems and a collection of short stories is laureate  of the Isidora Sekulić Award (2001) and the Milutin Uskoković Award (2004). New York City is the location of the novel "All About the Fuller Family" (2001), which reflects on the American way of life and the American Dream from the perspective of a family. The main character of the story is an immigrant to the United States. The award-winning narrative "From the Preacher's Book" (Iz knjige propovednika; 2004) has been published in the short stories volume "Stories from the Eustachian Tube" in 2006. Some of his short stories have been also published in literary magazines such as  Stremljenja (Aspirations), "Koraci" (Steps), Mali Nemo's "Sveske" (Notebooks), "Polja" and others. The novel "If You Become A Butterfly in the Next Life" was nominated for the final selection of the NIN Award 2013. The unpublished manuscript has been also nominated for the final selection of the Miroslav Dereta Award of the same named publishing house a few years earlier. In a brief unexpected encounter, the fictional character Martin falls in love with a woman who is found murdered shortly thereafter. He is then accused of being the prime suspect in the murder. The location of the plot is Prague  as a fantastically surreal background for the story, which already became a dark-mystical place in stories of Kafka and Perutz to world literary fame. The book of poems "What A Dream Of Flowers" was translated into Esperanto by Zlatoje Martinov.