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Vladislav Bajac is a Serbian writer and the director of Geopoetics Publishing.

Vladislav Bajac was born in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1954. Studied Faculty of Philology, Department of Yugoslav and World Literature, Belgrade University. He has worked as a journalist and translator. Currently he is a writer and a publisher. He is the author of eleven books - six novels, three books of short stories, two books of poetry. He is also founder and manager of Centre for Geopoetics Publishing in 1993, and at this present time, the director of Geopoetics Publishing, Belgrade. Bajac also served as Vice-president of the Serbian PEN Centre.

Awards and nominations
Haiku poems -Haiku awards at “The International Itoen Haiku Poetry Contest”, Tokyo, Japan, in both 1991 and 1993. Dream Coasters -“Stevan Pesic Award” for the best 1995 prose book in 1996 for the revised edition The Black Box -“Borislav Pekic Foundation Prize” for the best manuscript in 1993. The Book of Bamboo -Short-listed into 25 best novels of a decade in (former) Yugoslavia in 1990. -Nominated and short-listed in five novels of the year for “The NIN Award” for the Best Novel of The Year (1989) by the (former) Yugoslav critics. The Druid of Sindidun -“The 6th April Award (The Book Day)” proclaimed by The Serbian Literary Union and Belgrade City Assembly as the best novel on (ancient) Belgrade in 1998. -“The Golden Best-Seller Award” for the Top ten best-selling books in 1999. -“Branko Copic Foundation Award” (Serbian Academy of Science and Art) for the best book in 1998. -Proclaimed as “The Novel of the Year” (1998) by Vecernje Novosti (Evening Daily News). -Nominated and short-listed for “The NIN Award” for the Best Novel of the year in 1998 by the Yugoslav critics -Nominated and short-listed for “The Mesa Selimovic Award” for The Best Book of The Year (1998) by 70 Yugoslav critics (second place of all books published regarding literature in general). -Nominated for the International “Balkanika Award 1998” for the best novel in the Balkans as Yugoslav representative among all other Balkan countries. Escape from Biography -Award for one of ten Best-selling books in 2001 Europe Express -International Award for Collected Prose Work, Macedonia, 2003 Hamam Balkania -International “Balkanika Award” for the best book on the Balkans in 2007/2008, International jury -“Isidora Sekulic Award” for the best book in Serbia in 2008 -“Hit Liber Award” for one of ten Best-selling books in 2008 -“Kocicevo pero Award”, BiH, 2010 -Short listed for the NIN Award in 2008/2009 -Nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Award, 2011 -Shortlisted for Athens Literature Award 2012, Greece

-“Petar Kocic Award” for the excellence in writing, Banjaluka, BiH, 2010 -“Ramonda Serbica Award” for Lifetime achivement in literature and for contribution to literature and culture, Nis, Serbia, 2012 -“Prozart Award” for affirmation of Balkan literature, PRO-ZA Balkan Festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 2013