Nemanja Raičević

Nemanja Raičević, born 1976 in Novi Sad, capital of Vojvodina, is a Serbian writer of short stories.

His first book Priče (Stories) won the national Matica Srpska Award Prva knjiga (First Book) in 2002. The book was published by one the most renowned and oldest national cultural institutions, Matica Srpska of Novi Sad. The volume is held in many libraries across the former Yugoslavia and beyond (University of Harvard). Priče were also short-listed for the most prestigious national award for short prose fiction, named after Ivo Andrić, a Nobel Prize Winner for literature - Andrićevu nagradu (Andrić's Award).

His second book Nije kasno smejati se (It's Never Too Late to Laugh) was published ahead of the 2009 Belgrade Book Fair by Prometej publishing house from Novi Sad. The stories from Nije kasno smejati se are thematically and formally varied, yet all marked by Raičević's hallmark humour, and herald a unique voice in contemporary Serbian prose. While set in a deliberately imprecise time and place, Raičević’s stories, ripe with potent and memorable images, bespeak the troubled past, transitory present and uncertain future of the Balkans in a manner which is never referential or allegorical, but instead achieves a high degree of universal symbolism.

His stories and poems have also been published in numerous literary magazines, and have been translated into Hungarian and Romanian, as part of an international literature project for Middle Europe 3forcyberfiction. In his second book of stories Nije kasno smejati se, one story has been translated into English. Nemanja Raičević is a graduate of the University of Novi Sad, and presently lives and works in that town. He has also lived in Lisbon, Portugal.