Balša Brković
Montenegrin writer

Balša Brković

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Montenegrin writer
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25 April 1966
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University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
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Balša Brković (Serbian Cyrillic: Балша Брковић) (born 1966 in Podgorica, Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin writer, essayist and theatre critic. He is also editor of cultural section of daily newspaper Vijesti, and one of the prominent members of the social liberalopposition party United Reform Action (URA).

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He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He is an editor for the Vijesti 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. He was also a speaker at the International Festival for short stories in 2009. In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Brković published collections of poetry: Konji jedu breskve (1985), Filip boje srebra (1991), Rt Svete Marije (1993), Contrapposto (1998) and Dvojenje (2001) and novels Privatna galerija (2002) and Paranoja u Podgorici (2010).

His father Jevrem Brković is also a well-known Montenegrin writer.