Gojko Čelebić

Who is Gojko Čelebić?

Gojko Čelebić is a Montenegrin writer and diplomat.

Čelebić was born in Podgorica, Montenegro. He finished high school in Cetinje, Montenegro. Čelebić went on to study at the Novi Sad Law School, Serbia and Podgorica, Montenegro. He then graduated from DAMU in 1989 with a degree in dramaturgy. During the dissident movement in East Europe, through which Čelebić build himself as a creator of similar works, beginning in the 1980s he directed numerous theatrical pieces of dissident writers and began to publish dramas, poetry, short stories and novels. He also spent some time as a Prague student in Schauspielhaus, Berlin in 1987 as he participated in a seminar on Bertolt Brecht. In 1989 he received a masters in Prague through his thesis on Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Čelebić’s political career began with a position as the minister of culture in Montenegro, in the government of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, a mandate that lasted from 1993-1996. Following which he served as the ambassador of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Argentina for the period between 1998–2002,. During the same period, Čelebić also served as a non-residing ambassador to Uruguay,. In addition, he served as a non-residing ambassador to Paraguay during the same time,. Following these mandates, he was appointed minister-counselor at the Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in Japan from 2005 until Montenegro’s Independence in 2006. Currently Čelebić serves as a Deputy Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations in New York.