Ratko Adamović (Serbian-Cyrillic: Ратко Адамовић; born 10 October 1942 inKnin) is aSerbian writer.
Adamović studiedcomparative literature at thePhilological Faculty inBelgrade. The writer was long-serving official of theAssociation of Writers of Serbia for several decades. He is author of fourteen novels, four volumes of collected short stories and essays, created in the period from 1971 to 2016. The collectionGardens of Spirit (U vrtovima duha) contains essays onMarguerite Yourcenar,Fernand Braudel,Béla Hamvas,John Cowper Powys,Alexander Genis,Paul Virilio,Daniel J. Boorstin,Gaston Bachelard,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Jacques Le Goff,Paulo Coelho,Christoph Ransmayr and others. He received theIsidora Sekulić Award 1997 for his novelImmortal Kaleb (Besmrtni Kaleb); was President of itsJury from 2009 to 2016. He is recipient of the artists supporting programNationalPension of the Republic of Serbia (Nacionalna penzija Republike Srbije) since 2012. His novelRope (Konopac) has been published inPolish (1982), three of his short stories in German (1979),Lithuanian (1992) and Englishanthologies (1998). His work is often associated withSerbian science fiction.
In his online biography, he did not name his place of birth, but in thee-book collection of his edited works by Agencija Tea Books (available atGoogle Books) isSarajevo given, which does not correspond to the facts. In any case, he was participant of a political-cultural event in his real birthplace in July 1990, which became capital of theRepublic of Serbian Krajina a year later. During theNATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, he obviously talked to an Australian journalist inKlub književnika aboutKosovo, published byGreen Left Weekly with the headline:Sexism andRacism in the Balkans. He is a member of SerbianPEN and lives in Belgrade.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
