Vladan Matijević (Čačak, Serbia, 1962), a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, entered the Serbian literary scene in the last decade of the 20th century, with his first book of poetry Not Disturbing the Havoc (Ne remeteći rasulo, 1991). Three years later, his first novel, Out of Control (Van kontrole) was published, one of his nine books of prose for which he received all major Serbian literary awards: the Ivo Andrić Award in 2000, for the book of short stories Quite Dead (Prilično mrtvi); the NIN Award for his novel Writer from Afar (Pisac iz daleka); as well as Awards “Meša Selimović”, “Isidora Sekulić”, and “Borisav Staković” for his novel Very Little Light (Vrlo malo svetlosti) in 2010. He also received “Kočićevo pero” and “Kočićeva knjiga”, awards for a book of essays Memoirs, Amnesias (Memoari, amnezije). More than fifty critical essays and reviews analyze his work, while his life and literature are recorded in two documentary films. He works at the Nadežda Petrović Art Gallery in Čačak.