Milovan Stanković

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 The unpublished manuscript has been also nominated for the final selection of the Miroslav Dereta Award of the same named publishing house a few years earlier.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.

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.

Milovan Stanković (Serbian-Cyrillic: Милован Станковић; born 1969, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and electrical engineer.