Aleksandar Marčićev

The novels All the Lives of Zechariah Neuzinski and Victor Eisberg: happy, despite everything have been nominated for the final selections of the Miroslav Dereta Award for the best unpublished manuscript by Dereta publishing in 2007 and 2009, the novels Saint Max and Zechariah Neuzinski for the NIN Awards 2007 and 2008.

He graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary theory at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He has been working as a head librarian in the Special library of the Faculty of Physical Chemistry of the University of Belgrade since 1999. He can certainly be regarded as a great unknown of contemporary Serbian literature, who has hitherto been unnoticed by the critics of the literary scene in his native country apart from a few exceptions. One of the few critics even used the claim that he would be a writer at the border of obscurity and cult, in the sense of an unknown author who is a literary recommendation of elitist circles only. Zlatoje Martinov titled his review of The Sins of Saint Max in the literary journal Bagdala of the same named circle with the headline: literary provocation sui generis, which dealt with the socio-political and cultural-philosophical dimension in Marčićev's work. In fact, the author and his literary confrontation with his contemporaries, his generation, their and ultimately his culture, has not been made easy to get to the public with his work. Although he had already been awarded for the best academic thesis of the Philological Faculty upon graduation, and was then supported by a scholarship of the Pekić Foundation (2002) and a bursary of the Ténot Foundation (2006), a total of nine publishers had refused to edit his first novel All the Lives of Zechariah Neuzinski (completed in 2002).

Aleksandar Marčićev (Serbian-Cyrillic: Александар Марчићев; born 11 November 1966 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and librarian.