Vladimir D. Jankovic

About

Literary translator, poet, essayist. Translated about 120 novels and 180 other publications from French and English into Serbian language. His translations have reached the readership throughout the Balkans thanks to editions of prestigious Serbian publishers: Laguna, Čarobna knjiga, Booka, Evro-Giunti (Evro Book), Heliks, Narodna knjiga, Dereta, Mladinska knjiga Beograd… He translated into Serbian three Booker Prize winners: H. Mantel's novels Wolf's Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, as well as A. Enright’s The Gathering. Renowned as the translator of M. Houellebecq, T. C. Boyle, L. Slimani, I. McEwan, F. Beigbeder... For 14 years (1990–2004) he worked in media (Politika, Ekspres, Automobil, RTS) as a translator, journalist and editor. Published five collections of poetry, one collection of short stories and, beside that, about 700 essays, short stories, poems. Member of the Serbian Writers’ Association and the Vice President of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Selected translations: • MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: Sérotonine (Serotonin, 2019, Booka, Beograd) • IAN McEWAN: Nutshell (Orahova ljuska, 2018, Čarobna knjiga, Beograd) • MICHEL TOURNIER: La goute d‘or (Zlatna kapljica, 2017, Agora, Kulturni centar Novog Sada) • MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: Soumission (Pokoravanje, 2015, Booka, Beograd) • JEAN-MICHEL GUENASSIA: Le club des incorrigibles optimistes (Klub nepopravljivih optimista, 2015, Čarobna knjiga, Beograd) • TOM RACHMAN: The Imperfectionists (Imperfekcionisti, 2014, Booka, Beograd) • MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: Lanzarote et autres textes (Lanzarote i drugi tekstovi, 2014, Booka, Beograd) • HILARY MANTEL: Bring Up the Bodies (Leševe na videlo, 2012, Čarobna knjiga, Beograd) • T. C. BOYLE: Water Music (Muzika na vodi, 2011, Dereta, Beograd) • HILARY MANTEL: Wolf’s Hall (Vučje leglo, 2010, Mladinska knjiga, Beograd) • FREDERIC BEIGBEDER: L’amour dure trois ans (Ljubav traje tri godine, 2011, Booka, Beograd) • ANN ENRIGHT: The Gathering (Okupljanje, 2008, Dereta, Beograd) • VIRGINIE DESPENTES: Baise-moi (Kresni me, 2007, Laguna, Beograd)

Experience

• Freelance Literary Translator and Writer at Serbian Writers' Association (UKS)
  1993 - Present · 33 yrs 7 mos

  Poet, essayist, short story writer, literary translator

• Poet, Essayist at Stella Polare
  May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Poet, essayist, storyteller at Balkanski književni glasnik
  Aug 2016 - Present · 10 yrs

  Poet, essayist, storyteller, editor

• Literary Translator, Contributor, Language Advisor at Borislav Pekić Foundation
  Jan 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 7 mos

• Writer and Literary Translator at the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia at Association of Literary Translators of Serbia (Удружење књижевних преводилаца Србије)
  May 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 3 mos