Dragana Kršenković Brković

Who is Dragana Kršenković Brković?

Dragana Kršenković Brković is a Montenegrin writer.

Kršenkovic Brković graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1980 and from the Faculty of Drama Arts in 1984. TV Belgrade screened her play - Vrele kapi in 1981. She wrote it for an entrance examination.

As the Wars in the Balkans erupted, she moved from Belgrade, Serbia, to Podgorica, Montenegro. There, Kršenković Brković established a puppet theater called the Blue Lagoon, with her husband, Tomislav Brković.

Dragana Kršenković Brković was a Hubert Humphrey fellow 2005-06, which is part of the Fulbright Exchange Program. She spent a year in Washington DC, US. She also received an Austrian Government grant in order to carry out research at the University of Graz in Austria in 2008.

Her plays are performed in many Balkan countries. Four of her plays are set texts for elementary schools in Montenegro and Macedonia. Her book The Genie of the Manito Lake was selected for the White Ravens Awards 2011. by the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, Germany.