Statement of Branko Ćopić Endowment on prize winners

At the session held on 18 April 2019 in the SASA, the Branko Ćopić Endowment’s Board of Directors consisting of academicians Matija Bećković, Dušan Kovaćević, Nada Milošević Đorđević, Goran Petrović  (Vice President) and Milosav Tešić (President) decided to give the prize of the Branko Ćopić Endowment Fund for the works of high artistic values published in 2018 for the first time to:

Filip Grbić for the novel Prelest (published by “Vulkan izdavaštvo”, Belgrade)

Blagoje Baković for the poem Kako vrabac peva [As a Sparrow Chirps] (published by “Kairos“, Sremski Karlovci) and

Slobodan Jović for the collection of poems ”Strah od savršenstva” [Fear of Perfection] (published by the National Library “Stefan Prvovenčani”, Kraljevo).

The prize ceremony is scheduled on 30 May 2019, at the SASA Club, at 12 o’clock.