Zeljko Milovic
Željko Milović (born 1968 in Bar, Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) writer, poet, journalist, publicist, music critic.
Since 1986. has been publishing music reviews, articles and essays as well as a variety of texts related to issues of culture and subculture. For many years Milović has been an active member of the editorial board of the Omladinski Grafiti (Youth Graffiti), the cult Podgorica's magazine of the nineties. In recent years he's been writing about montenegrian music and urban scene for a weekly magazine Monitor. He's the music director of Radio Bar.
Since 1994 he's been working as a journalist, broadcast host and editor of music shows on Radio Bar. For seven years he has been editing the youth magazine The Road to South and a rock serial Billy Joe & Lollita in Wonderland for eight years. Milović is the author of several ethno-reportages. For a report of an ecological "black point" – Give Sea a Chance: Junkyard Ćafe, he was awarded a first place and got a grand prix "Golden Microphone Awards" in 2010. at the Third Radio Festival of Montenegro. For a report Countryside Zupci he was awarded third place at the Radio Festival in Niksic in 1998. and second place in 2009. at the Radio Festival in Berane for a report Church of Saint Tekla.
Milović has been the chief editor of Barske novine (Bar newspapers) and bARS, a magazine dedicated to arts and culture, from 1999 until 2003. From 2007 until 2010 he has been the chief editor of Nove barske novine (New Bar newspaper). He's the editor of the Bar Info portal – Bar online daily. He's a member of the Association of Writers of Montenegro.
With several other writers, in 1993. he founded the Association of writers Ars Antibari, whose members were poets and prose writers from Montenegro and Serbia, including rock musicians Margita Stefanović, Brane Babić Kebra, Nandor Ljubanović and Nikola Vranjković.
Milović was the editor of three collections (poems / prose) published by this Association:
- Zvona ispod mora (Bells under the sea) – co-editor, 1994.
- Izgleda da će jugo (Looks like jugo’s coming) 1996.
- Da li da ti kažem ko te je ubio, Gea (Should I tell you who killed you, Gea) 1999.
He collaborated in editing a five-volume Istorijski leksikon Crne Gore (History lexicon of Montenegro).
He was awarded the literary prize Ćamil Sijarić for best unpublished book of prose in 2006/07 year.
In 1998. and 2008. he had a Writer's night in Festival Barski ljetopis.
In 2010. and 2011. he represented Montenegro at the Storytelling festival Prichigin in Split, Croatia. In the 2010 and 2011, he represented Montenegrian poets at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Struga, Republic of Macedonia. He is also first Montenegrian poet at the international poetry festival Poetic nights in Velestovo, Macedonia, in 2011. He was a member of international poetry meeting in Velestovo on 25th anniversary of Festival, in 2013.
Published works
- Bandiera rossa (poems) 1994.
- Ovu knjigu nisam nazvao imenom tvojim (I didn't entitle this book by your name) (poems) 1995.
- Periferni vremeplov (Peripheral timemachine) (poems/prose/photos) 1998.
- Bandiera Nera I, (prose) 2000.
- Bandiera Nera II (poems) 2000.
- Ona i grad i grad i ja (She and the city and the city and me) (poems) 2001.
- Izdaleka mi zene na potonule katedrale lice (From afar women seem like sunk cathedrals to me) (selected poems on montenegrin) 2006. (project with photographer Stevo Popovic)
- Ti dani, te godine (Those days, those years) (prose) 2007.
- Ulica Ivice Surjaka i što je bilo poslije (Ivica Shurjak's Street and what happened after) (prose) 2011.
- Мртво море меѓу нас (Dead Sea between us) (selected poems on macedonian) 2013.
Monographs about Bar
- Bar s druge strane ogledala (Bar from the other side of the mirror) 2009. – author
- Knjiga o Baru (A Book of Bar), 2001. – co-author and editor
- Pristan, priča o srušenom gradu (Pristan, the story of the broken city) 2008. – co-author and co-editor
Also, as a "ghost writer", he is the author of two monographs about Bar's history.
References
http://www.balkanmedia.com/magazin/1851/ekatarina_velika_margita_je_decak__pisalo_je.html
http://www.plastelin.com/content/view/125/105/
http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/muzika/upotreba_eurosonga_u_politicke_svrhe_z_milovic.htm
http://glazba.monitor.hr/clanci/makadam.htm
http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/knjizevnost/ti_dani_te_godine_zeljko_milovic.htm
http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/istorija/dokumenti/pristan6_grupa_autora.htm