Dragana Kršenković Brković is the novelist, essayist, fairy tales author and feminist.
She is the author of three novels, two story collections, two monographs, and fairy tales.
In her fiction, she loves to play with time, narratives, space and traditional art forms. As a writer, she is interested in exploring the relationship between the real and the unreal, fantastic spaces and imaginary geographies, the mythical structures of modern man’s thinking, the place of ancient heritage in the alienation and loneliness of modern men, etc.
Kršenković Brković’s fiction has been translated to several languages. Besides, two of her novellas, The Maiden’s Rock and The Fire in Alexandria, were in the syllabus of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, UC Berkeley (2005 – 2007).
She is a recipient of fellowships and grants from various organizations, including Apexart (NYC), Art OMI (NY), UNESCO (Rhodes), HHH Fellowship (California & Washington DC), Goethe-Institut Munich (Leipzig), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), OeAD-GmbH (Graz), Internationale Jugendbiliothek Munich (Bologna), National Cultural Found of Hungary (Pécs), among other recognitions.
As the author of fairy tales, she has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from 2008 through 2018. Also, her book of fairy tales The Genie of Lake Manito has been chosen for the 2011 White Ravens by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, while her picture book Secret’s Secret was selected for the 2011Biennial of Illustration /BIB/ in Bratislava. Besides, four of her fairy tales are set texts for elementary schools in Montenegro and Macedonia. Two feature movies, Hozentarus (2018) and The Magic Key (2020), were made based on her fairy tales.
Her writing appears in October Hill Magazine, The Bosphorus Review of Books, Buchkultur, Sarajevo Notebooks, TEMA, Blesok, Folia linguistica et litteraria, Lingua Montenegrina, and ARS, among several others.
She graduated from Faculty of Drama Arts, Department of Dramaturgy, University of Arts in Belgrade, and from Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. She holds MPhil diploma from Faculty of Philosophy, Literature Studies, University of Montenegro.
She is a member of the Montenegrin PEN Center and the Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers (CDNK).