Steps Through the Mist wins gold award for production

June 2008 - The Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen recently awarded its 2008 Gold Award to McNaughton & Gunn, the truly excellent US printing company that produces all of Aio's books. The award was given "for superb craftsmanship in the production of Steps Through the Mist", which has been added to its Gallery of Superb Printing.

The latest news from Zoran

Zoran, who in October 2007 was named a professor at Belgrade University (on top of his current status a master in the field of literature), stands with the students of his first creative writing course at the end of the first semester.

And here's the professor in action, earlier in the semester:

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December 14, 2007 - Zoran's short novel 'The Bridge' has been honored with "The Golden Hit Liber" Award, given by Serbian National Television to the most prominent prose book published in 2007.

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Zoran recently appeared in Fame magazine, a Serbian glossy, along with (to Amy's delight) Serbia's three reigning tennis stars:

         

Zoran not only dazzles from his own full page in the feature article, but appears on a foldout section of the magazine's cover (shown in the center, above).

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October 16, 2007 - In late 2008 Serbian National Television will broadcast a six-part television series based on Zoran's thriller 'The Last Book', with filming beginning in early 2008. "I am delighted my novel will be turned into a TV series," Zoran said, adding, "I am very pleased I'll hvae an opportunity to cooperate on the screenplay."

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October 5, 2007 - Serbian novelist Zoran Zivkovic has been made a professor in the Faculty of Philology at Belgrade University, where he will teach Creative Writing. "I am delighted I'll have an opportunity to transfer my writer's experience to talented students," Zoran said. "I am certain we could all benefit from working together."

(Our note: wow, those students have an amazing opportunity! Here's hoping they make the most of it...)

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September 25, 2007 - We heard from Zoran, who was having a blast as one of the Guests of Honor at EuroCon 2007 in autumnal Copehagen...

Zoran and fellow Guest of Honor Ann McCaffrey take in the town... from left to right: Ann, her assistant Carol, Mia, Zoran, and Ruth and David Hardy enjoy lunch together at a Copenhagen eatery.

Zoran takes a well-deserved break on the Copenhagen waterfront... He sent other more official photos (Zoran sitting on a panel, Zoran being interviewed, etc.) but we couldn't help but select this one, he looks so dapper.

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Zoran is flanked by two actresses performing a multimedia piece based on his book Amarcord at art gallery Ozone in downtown Belgrade:

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Zoran receives the Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa Award at a ceremony held on August 29th in the Montenegrin Adriatic city of Budva:

The good folks at PS Publishing also chose to post this very photo on their site, so we're afraid we're not being very original here... but we couldn't help ourselves, Zoran is being so much himself. (Charming no matter the circumstance!) Incidentally, the two are standing in a ninth-century church, one of the oldest in Eastern Europe. A screening of a film based on Zoran's work was shown on the screen (to Zoran's left) to a packed house.

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June 12, 2007 - Zoran Zivkovic was awarded the 2006 Isidora Sekulic Award for his novel The Bridge. The award, named after one of the greatest Serbian female writers and essayists of the 20th century, is a major mainstream literary prize chosen by a majority vote of jury members. It comes with 2,500 euros, or about $3,300 in US dollars.

Prof. Slobodan Grubacic, jury president, announced the award at a ceremony at Belgrade City Hall. "[Zoran Zivkovic] finds the fantastic of everyday events to be a highly powerful tool with which to produce unusual literary work," he said. "Themes of doubles, raincoats, meeting on a bridge—with us from Hoffman to Gogol and from Hofmanstal to Kafka—eloquently indicate Zivkovic's dexterity at playing with familiar and less known themes in world literature."

Zoran (far left) waits to accept the award in front of a packed ballroom

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Zoran and Kedros, his Greek publisher, take on the Thessalonica Book Fair in Greece in May:

Zoran poses for photographs at his publisher's stand

About to be interviewed...

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ZORAN ZIVKOVIC TV RIGHTS DEAL

May 11, 2007 - TV rights for Serbian award-winning author Zoran Zivkovic’s novella "Alarm Clock on the Night Table" have been sold to the Serbian National Television (RTS). The shooting should take place in early autumn. The novella was recently broadcast on the UK digital radio BBC 7.

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Zoran's Amarcord premieres at the Film Archive Theater in Belgrade on April 5th:

Zoran is facing the audience in the front of the theater, on the right.

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A unqiue image, as seen in a weekly Serbian magazine: two Zoran Zivkovics. (Zoran is to the right; to the left is the prime minister of Serbia, of the same name.) The photo was taken at the premiere of Zoran's story Amarcord. (See above)

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Filming of the first episode of Zoran's Amarcord—the Book of Laughter and Forgetting—began on February 11th. It's being produced by an independent producer for a Belgrade television company. Below, the filming in action: