Dragan Velikić

Dragan Velikić (; born 7 July 1953) is a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and former Ambassador to Austria. He's one of the best known writers of modern Serbia.

His influences include Gaito Gazdanov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Constantine P. Cavafy, Ivo Andrić and Aleksandar Tišma among other authors.

Velkić's best known works are the novels ''Ruski prozor'' (''The Russian Window'') and ''Islednik'' (''The Investigator''), both of which won the NIN Award.

In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

In mid-1970s, Velikić was shortly a keyboardist for the popular rock band Pop Mašina. Provided by Wikipedia