Đorđe Pisarev (Vizić, Serbia, 1957), a novelist, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic, has been ranked among the most prominent voices of the postmodern experiment in Serbian literature since the 1980s. He gratuated from Novi Sad Univerity's Faculty of Philosophy and has been working in various domains of the literary life ever since. He was the editor-in-chief of the prominent literary magazine Polja, the editor of the culutre section in Dnevnik daily newspaper, as well as the editor of The Serbian Literary Magazine. Pisarev's oeuvre comprises five collections of short stories and the following novels: Mimesis Mimesis of the Novel / Mimezis mimezis romana, (with F. Petrinović), 1983; The Books of the Doll People / Knjige naroda lutaka, 1988; A Gothic Story / Gotska priča, 1990; The Chest / Kovčeg, 1992; Listing the Names of Things / Popisujući imena stvari, 1995; A Plot of Twin Sisters / Zavera bliznakinja, 2000; Under the Dragon's Shadow / Pod senkom zmaja, 2004; Midnight in the Room of Memories / Ponoć je u sobi uspomena, 2006; And What if She Dies Before She Wakes Up? / A šta ako umre pre nego što se probudi?, 2009; On the Trail of Tears / Na stazi suza, 2010.
For his work he has received some of the most appreciated awards in the field of literature such as the Laza Kostić Award, the Stevan Pešić Award, the Writer's Association of Vojvodina Award for the Book of the Year, and the Borislav Pekić Fund Award.
He lives in Novi Sad, in Serbia's province of Vojvodina.