Biljana Jovanović

Code: Biljana Jovanović
Category: Authors

Novel: Dogs and Others

BILJANA JOVANOVIĆ  (1953-1996) was a Serbian intellectual who wrote in almost all major genres; she published poetry, three novels, four plays, and a number of nonfiction pieces, mostly connected to her time in the anti-Milošević opposition of the 1990s. After studying philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Jovanović was an early and active member of a number of important human rights groups in Yugoslavia, beginning in 1982. She was also an organiser and participant in a number of major anti-war campaigns and demonstrations in 1991 and 1992, and she helped found a “flying” (underground) workshop/university in 1992. Jovanović died in Ljubljana at the frighteningly young age of 43. Widely known among intellectuals and activists for her feminist and anti-war work, she was also a talented and courageous writer of fiction and drama.