My writing

Style and Influences

I try to write clearly, and I don’t trust big ideas that can't survive plain language. I’m more interested in what people do than what they claim to believe. My role models are writers who said it how it is, people who had courage and fire in them.

Mainly:

Fante, for his magnificent sentence, and the stupid rage, the kind you can relate to.
Hamsun, for his wanderers, and for writing the most potent book I've ever read.
Hemingway, for his simplicity and sharpness, for being everything I'm not, and writing "The Sun Also Rises", the book I've read too many times to count.
Camus, for writing about stuff that bothered me, and giving me peace.
Bukowski, for showing me that writing is freedom and you can do it any way you like. The same goes for life.
Pavić, for his incredible architecture of a story, and magic realism which somehow comes naturally in the Balkans.
Valjarević, for the courage to be direct and a style that makes you understand and embrace solitude.

My writing

Style and Influences

Mainly:

Fante, for his magnificent sentence, and the stupid rage, the kind you can relate to.
Hamsun, for his wanderers, and for writing the most potent book I've ever read.
Hemingway, for his simplicity and sharpness, for being everything I'm not, and writing "The Sun Also Rises", the book I've read too many times to count.
Camus, for writing about stuff that bothered me, and giving me peace.
Bukowski, for showing me that writing is freedom and you can do it any way you like. The same goes for life.
Pavić, for his incredible architecture of a story, and magic realism which somehow comes naturally in the Balkans.
Valjarević, for the courage to be direct and a style that makes you understand and embrace solitude.

Novels

It's Easy to Die

(Lako je umreti) 2023

I began this novel after turning thirty. I woke up one night and started writing.

The novel explores the problem of meaning: how we look for it, how we lose it, and how sometimes we have to invent it just to keep going. It follows a person who feels stuck between what they were promised and what actually arrived.

The manuscript was shortlisted in the largest unpublished-novel contest in the Balkans. It didn’t win, so it’s still unpublished. Also, the title is quite unfortunate, I need to find a better name for it.

Us, Newcomers

(Mi, došljaci) 2024

A satirical novel about Serbia opening itself to the world, and not always knowing what to do with what came in.

It deals with immigration, cultural confusion, good intentions, bad habits, and the quiet fear of losing something we never fully understood to begin with.

Last Days of Summer

(Poslednji dani leta) 2025

Written after a complete personal crash: heartbreak, job loss, and the realisation that those infamous immigrants coming to take our jobs were robots all along.

Meditations from two friends sitting at a seaside, talking about life, love, AI who came to take our bread, and the bleak future overall.

The Sons of Jaguar

(Sinovi Jaguara)

I started this one wanting to explore the relationship between fathers and sons, public and private images of persons, and that mysterious connection between Mexico and Yugoslavia. What gets passed down, what we pretend not to inherit, how some men become symbols of an era, and how those symbols drift apart from who they actually were.

At its core, this should be a book about blood, legacy, and the question of how much of our fathers we carry with us. We’ll see where it goes.

I also have a strong desire to write sci-fi (maybe to appease the robot overlords), so we'll see.

Substack

I’m launching a Substack where I’ll publish weekly.

What you’ll find there:

short stories
novel excerpts
essays on meaning, writing, and life
notes about life