Dragan Velikić

Dragan Velikić

Dragan Velikić (Belgrade, 1953) is a novelist, graduated in World Literature in Belgrade. Between 1994 and 1999 ha was an editor of the famous opposition Radio Station B-92. As a fierce critic of the Milošević regime, in 1999 he took refuge in Vienna and Budapest. From June 2005, he was Serbia’s Ambassador to Austria. He is a freelance writer publishing novels, stories and essays translated into ten languages. He has written 14 books and a number of columns that have been published in the weeklies NIN, Vreme, Reporter, and the daily Danas.

THE EXPERIENCE OF DIFFERENCE – AN ESSAY ON DANUBIAN CULTURES

I I often wonder about how concepts of the Danube and Central Europe overlap. For me, the Danubian and Central European regions are not one and the same, yet I also feel a closeness between the two. This also applies with regard to that experience of difference that characterises the