Serbian PEN Center

Serbian PEN Center

10.February 2026. B. B.

A Century of the Serbian PEN Center

The history of the Serbian PEN Center is unusually interesting and exciting, unlike any other artistic and cultural association in Serbia in the past century.

Teofil Pančić (1965–2025): A year later

05.February 2026. Ivan Milenkovic

Long sentences and wide joys

Teofil Pančić's language is most like an avalanche: it moves with enormous speed and breaks everything in front of it. If it overwhelms you - you're done. However, it will only come down on you if you deserve it. No one was observed to have been hit by an avalanche who did not invoke the avalanche through stupidity, recklessness, creepiness, or a choice to reek of fascism

Interview: Laszlo Wegel, writer

05.February 2026. Nedim Sejdinovic

The student movement has deeper roots than daily politics

"Viktor Orbán started as a Soros scholar, continued as a prominent liberal, but he recognized the dominant value system of Hungarian society and moved to the center right, where he gained permanent power. Aleksandar Vučić started from the extreme right, over time he found his place on the center right, where he also gained permanent power. Both of them identified liberalism and the left as their main opponents."

About the book

05.February 2026. Vladislava Vojnović

Simple as a bean, dangerous as a bullet

Literary authorities do not know what to do with literature that does not accuse, does not grieve and does not save, that has neither clear labels nor moral lessons on a plate, that is neither left nor right

Intellectual reportage: Polish Literary Institute in Paris (2)

14.January 2026. Ivan Milenkovic

Legend about the Editor

Some of the greatest, like Witold Gombrović and Česlav Miloš, would almost certainly not have become what they are without Ježi Gjedrojć. However, he was not on good terms with any of them: he was too conservative to accept the profligate Gombrović and too experienced to trust the converted communist Miloš just like that. However, he never rejected either Gombrović's or Miloš's text. He was too good an editor not to realize, in spite of himself, what kind of writers we were talking about

About the book

14.January 2026. Nebojsa Bradić

Kantor's theater of love and death

At the end of 2025, when it has been 50 years since the premiere of the play Dead class Tadeusz Kantor, a book was published about that great Polish director who simply cannot be imitated

The Spirit of Time: Seven Decades of Lolita (5)

25.December 2025. Milan Milošević

Odyssey of Vladimir Nabokov who loved butterflies

Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish woman; in Paris he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed in the movement today MeToo; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee from paradise married a Chekist and did not return to Russia, but on the Magic Hill, at an altitude of 1900 meters, he fell while trying to catch a butterfly parnassius apollo, the messenger of Olympus

The Spirit of Time: Seven Decades of Lolita (4)

18.December 2025. Milan Milošević

Odyssey of Vladimir Nabokov who loved butterflies

Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish woman; in Paris he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed in the movement today MeToo; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee from paradise married a Chekist and did not return to Russia, and on the Magic Hill, at an altitude of 1900 meters, he fell while trying to catch a butterfly Parnassius Apollo, the messenger of Olympus

Inner voice

03.December 2025. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Poet of the Invisible

Writing a novel is a completely exhausting experience for Rilke and after it he will not be able to write anything new for several years, he will live in complete agony that he has dried up and that as a poet he will no longer be able to create anything. Of course, he turned to Lou Salome for help, and she introduced him to Freud in 1913. None of these encounters bring him any help or relief. He remains in fear that healing would destroy his creativity, that "with the disappearance of his devils, his angels would also disappear."

Spirit of the "Times": Seven Decades of Lolita (2)

03.December 2025. Milan Milošević

Odyssey of Vladimir Nabokov who loved butterflies

Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish wife; in Paris, he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed today in the MeToo movement; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee from paradise married a Chekist and did not return to Russia, but on the Magic Hill, at an altitude of 1900 meters, he fell while trying to catch a butterfly parnassius apollo, the messenger of Olympus

and the story of a writer whose principles were not for sale even in the most difficult circumstances

Postcard

03.December 2025. Dragica Jakovljević

Marai, by himself

The bust of Sandor Marai in Buda and the story of a writer whose principles were not for sale even in the most difficult circumstances

Zeitgeist: Seven Decades Lolitas

26.November 2025. Milan Milošević

Odyssey of Vladimir Nabokov who loved butterflies

Feuilleton about a writer whose "head speaks English, his heart speaks Russian, and his ear listens to French", a descendant of the Russian aristocracy who fled the October Revolution on the ship "Nadezhda", changed his date of birth because of Lenin and lost everything - including his first love, his Annabelle Lee - so he married in Weimar Germany and survived Hitler's regime with a Jewish woman; in Paris, he kissed and then left the unfortunate emigrant Irina and fled from Hitler to America, wrote a bestseller book about a pedophile and a nymph, which is still discussed today in the MeToo movement; and towards the end of my life, I heard that his Annabelle Lee married a Chekist from Paradise and did not return to Russia, and fell on the Magic Hill at an altitude of 1900 meters while trying to catch a butterfly parnassius apollo, the messenger of Olympus

Roman

05.November 2025. Ivan Milenkovic

What is reality?

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, translation from English by Aleksandar Milajić, Booka, Belgrade 2024.

Book Fair

Book Fair

25.October 2025. KS

The Book Fair: The Picture of Two Serbia begins

Despite the cancellation of certain publishers and requests to postpone this event, this year's Book Fair begins. The prime date is November 1 - the day that marks one year since the fatal fall of the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad

About the book

22.October 2025. Biljana Djordjevic Mironja

Andrić's consumables

After more than four decades, six of Ivo Andrić's earliest notebooks, which moved from the pocket of his student coat, prisoner's shirt, diplomatic tailcoat, and finally, from his desk to his legacy's manuscript treasury, have been published in one book.

Interview: Slobodan Maksimović, director

16.October 2025. Ivan Milenkovic

Humor as protection against harmful environment

Many people approached me after the film with a smile, while wiping away tears. I think they are touched by the fact that the film covers an era of exceptional creators, who are an indispensable part of our common history