The NIN Award (Serbian: Ninova nagrada, Нинова награда), officially the Award for Best Novel of the Year, is a prestigious Serbian (and previously Yugoslavian) literary award established in 1954 by the NIN weekly and is given annually for the best newly published novel written in Serbian (previously in Serbo-Croatian).[1] The award is presented every year in January by a panel of writers and critics. In addition to being a highly acclaimed award capable of transforming writers' literary careers, the award is also sought after because it virtually assures bestseller status for the winning novel.[2] The literary website complete review called it the "leading Serbian literary prize" in 2012.[3]

Quick Facts Award, Awarded for ...
NIN Award
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Awarded forBest new Serbian novel
Sponsored byNIN magazine
LocationBelgrade
CountryYugoslavia (1954–1991)
Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006)
Serbia (2007–present)
First awarded1954
2023 winnerStevo Grabovac
Most awardsOskar Davičo (3)
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Between 1954 and 1957, the award was given to the best novel published in Yugoslavia, regardless of the language, but all the novels awarded in this period were written in Serbo-Croatian language. Starting in 1958, only novels written in Serbo-Croatian were eligible.[4] Starting in 2012, only novels written in Serbian were eligible, regardless of the place of publication.[5]

Winners

Since its inception, the award was not awarded only once, in 1959, when the jury decided that there were no candidates worthy of the award.[6] Oskar Davičo is the only author to have won the award three times (in 1956, 1963 and 1964), and the only one to win it in two consecutive years. The only other authors to have won multiple (two) awards are Dobrica Ćosić, Živojin Pavlović, Dragan Velikić, and most recently Svetislav Basara. So far, seven women have been recipients of the award.[7]

In 1978, Danilo Kiš became the first laureate to return the award. He returned the award for Novel of the year 1972 and demanded his name to be deleted from the list of winners.[8] Because he was outraged by the text about him published in NIN on 7 February 1992, Milisav Savić returned the award that was given to him just a month earlier for the year 1991.[9]

One of the most notable non-recipients is Ivo Andrić, the only Yugoslavian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Andrić was candidate for the NIN award once, in 1954, with Prokleta avlija, but the jury disqualified the book as they classified it as a novella, and not a novel.[10][11]

More information Year, Photo ...
Year Photo Author(s) Novel Finalists Ref
2023 Stevo Grabovac Poslije zabave
[12][13]
2022 Danica Vukićević Unutrašnje more
  • Milan Tripković, Klub istinskih stvaralaca
  • Goran Petrović, Papir sa vodenim znakom
  • Mirjana Drljević, Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo
  • Uglješa Šajtinac, Koljka i Sašenjka
  • Marijana Čanak, Klara, Klarisa
[14][15]
2021 Milena Marković Deca
[16][17]
2020 Svetislav Basara (2) Kontraendorfin
  • Vladan Matijević, Sloboda govora
  • Darko Cvijetić, Što na podu spavaš
  • Enes Halilović, Ljudi bez grobova
  • Savo Stijepović, Prekrasne ruševine
  • Bojan Savić Ostojić, Ništa nije ničije
  • Ognjen Spahić, Pod oba sunca
[18][19]
2019 Saša Ilić Pas i kontrabas
  • Milenko Bodirogić, Po šumama i gorama
  • Stevo Grabovac, Mulat Albino Komarac
  • Slobodan Tišma, Grozota ili…
  • Ana Vučković, Yugoslav
[20]
2018 Vladimir TabaševićZabluda Svetog Sebastijana
[21]
2017 Dejan AtanackovićLuzitanija
[22][23]
2016 Ivana DimićArzamas
[24][25]
2015 Dragan Velikić (2)Islednik
[26][27]
2014 Filip DavidKuća sećanja i zaborava
(The House of Memory and Oblivion[28])
[29]
2013 Goran GocićTai
(Thai[30])
[31]
2012 Aleksandar GatalicaVeliki rat
(The Great War[32])
  • Mira Otašević, Zoja
  • Drago Kekanović, Veprovo srce
  • Katarina Brajović, Štampar i Veronika
  • Ivančica Đerić, Nesreća i stvarne potrebe
  • Laslo Blašković, Posmrtna maska
[33][34]
2011 Slobodan TišmaBernardijeva soba
[35]
2010 Gordana ĆirjanićOno što oduvek želiš
[36]
2009 Grozdana OlujićGlasovi u vetru
  • Rajko Vasić, Prsti ludih očiju
  • Zvonko Karanović, Tri slike pobede
  • Žarko Komanin, Ljetopis vječnosti
  • Sandra Petrušić, Taoci
  • Đorđe Pisarev, A ako umre pre nego što se probudi
  • Dejan Stojiljković, Konstantinovo raskršće
  • Mirjana Urošević, PARK carmen Machado
[1][37]
2008 Vladimir PištaloTesla, portret među maskama
(Tesla, a Portrait with Masks[38])
[39][40]
2007 Dragan VelikićRuski prozor
(The Russian Window[41])
  • Gordana Ćirjanić, Poljubac
  • Draško Miletić, pH roman
  • Vladimir Kecmanović, Feliks
[42][43]
2006 Svetislav BasaraUspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti
(The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease)
  • Srđan Valjarević, Komo
  • Zoran Živković, Most
  • Zvonko Karanović, Četiri zida i grad
  • Mirjana Mitrović, Emilija Leta
[44]
2005 Miro VuksanovićSemolj zemlja
[39][45]
2004 Vladimir TasićKiša i hartija
[46]
2003 Vladan MatijevićPisac izdaleka
  • Dragan Velikić, Dosije Domaševski
  • Goran Milašinović, Camera obscura
  • Ana Vučković, Epoha lipsa juče
  • Branko Brđanin, Mihail
  • Gordana Ćirjanić, Kuća u Puertu
  • Radovan Beli Marković, Devet belih oblaka
[39][47]
2002 Mladen MarkovUkop oca
  • Daniel Kovač, Logika reke, pruge i otpada
  • Radovan Beli Marković, Knez Miškin u Belom Valjevu
  • Dobrilo Nenadić, Sablja grofa Vronskog
  • Nenad Teofilović, Klopka
[48]
2001 Zoran ĆirićHobo
  • Radovan Beli Marković, Poslednja ruža Kolubare
  • Dragan Velikić, Slučaj Bremen
  • Veselin Marković, Izranjanje
  • David Albahari, Svetski putnik
  • Danilo Nikolić, Jesenja svila
  • Vladimir Tasić, Oproštajni dar
  • Milorad Grujić, Bog Vadraca i Madžara
  • Eliezer Papo, Sarajevska megila
  • Đorđe Pisarev, Pod senkom zmaja
[49]
2000 Goran PetrovićSitničarnica "Kod srećne ruke"
(At the "Lucky Hand" aka the Sixty-nine Drawers[50])
[39][51]
1999 Maksimilijan Erenrajh-OstojićKarakteristika
[52]
1998 Danilo NikolićFajront u Grgetegu
[53]
1997 Milovan DanojlićOslobodioci i izdajnici
[54]
1996 David AlbahariMamac
(Bait[55])
[56]
1995 Svetlana Velmar-JankovićBezdno
[39][57]
1994 Vladimir ArsenijevićU potpalublju
(In the Hold[58])
[59]
1993 Radoslav PetkovićSudbina i komentari
(Destiny, Annotated[60])
[39][61]
1992 Živojin Pavlović (2)Lapot
[39][62]
1991 Milisav SavićHleb i strah
  • Žarko Radaković, Tibingen
  • Boba Blagojević, Skerletna luda
  • Milorad Pavić, Unutrašnja strana vetra
  • Dragan Velikić, Astragan
  • Berislav Kosijer, Bezbožnici I-II
  • Momčilo Selić, Izgon
[39][63]
1990 Miroslav Josić VišnjićOdbrana i propast Bodroga u sedam burnih godišnjih doba
[39][64]
1989 Vojislav LubardaVaznesenje
[39][65]
1988 Dubravka UgrešićForsiranje romana reke
(Fording the Stream of Consciousness[66])
[67]
1987 Voja ČolanovićZebnja na rasklapanje
[68]
1986 Vidosav StevanovićTestament
[69][39]
1985 Živojin PavlovićZid smrti
  • Zvonimir Majdak, Kćerka
  • Radoslav Petković, Senke na zidu
  • Milisav Savić, Topola na terasi
  • Slobodan Selenić, Očevi i oci
  • Nedjeljko Fabrio, Vježbanje života
[70]
1984 Milorad PavićHazarski rečnik
(Dictionary of the Khazars[71])
[72]
1983 Dragoslav MihailovićČizmaši
[39][73]
1982 Antonije IsakovićTren 2 [39]
1981 Pavao PavličićVečernji akt
[74]
1980 Slobodan SelenićPrijatelji [39]
1979 Pavle UgrinovZadat život [39]
1978 Mirko KovačVrata od utrobe [75]
1977 Petko Vojnić PurčarDom, sve dalji [39]
1976 Aleksandar TišmaUpotreba čoveka
(The Use of Man[76])
  • Žarko Komanin, Kolijevka
  • Ćamil Sijarić, Carska vojska
  • Vukašin Mićunović, Bolovanja
  • Pavle Ugrinov, Fascinacije
  • Sveta Lukić, Vodeni cvetovi
  • Mirko Kovač, Ruganje s dušom
  • Mladen Markov, Smutnoe vreme
[77]
1975 Miodrag BulatovićLjudi sa četiri prsta
[78]
1974 Jure Franičević-PločarVir
[79]
1973 Mihailo LalićRatna sreća [39]
1972 Danilo KišPeščanik
(Hourglass[80])
Aleksandar Tišma, Knjiga o Blamu [81]
1971 Miloš CrnjanskiRoman o Londonu
(A Novel of London[82])
[39]
1970 Borislav PekićHodočašće Arsenija Njegovana
[83]
1969 Bora ĆosićUloge moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji
(My Family's Role in the World Revolution[84])
  • Voja Čolanović, Pustolovina po meri
  • Jara Ribnikar, Jan Nepomucki
[85]
1968 Slobodan NovakMirisi, zlato i tamjan
(Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh[86])
[87]
1967 Erih KošMreže [88]
1966 Meša SelimovićDerviš i smrt
(Death and the Dervish[89])
[39]
1965 Ranko MarinkovićKiklop
(Cyclops[90])
[39]
1964 Oskar Davičo (3)Tajne [39]
1963Oskar Davičo (2)Gladi [39]
1962 Miroslav KrležaZastave (vol. 1) [91]
1961 Dobrica Ćosić (2)Deobe [39]
1960 Radomir KonstantinovićIzlazak
(Exitus[92])
Mihailo Lalić, Hajka
[93]
1959 No award given [6]
1958 Branko ĆopićNe tuguj bronzana stražo
[39][4]
1957 Aleksandar VučoMrtve javke
Vladan Desnica, Proljeća Ivana Galeba
[39][94]
1956 Oskar DavičoBeton i svici [39][95]
1955 Mirko BožićNeisplakani
[96]
1954 Dobrica ĆosićKoreni
(The Roots)
[39][97]
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Jury members

More information Year(s), Member #1 ...
Year(s) Member #1 Member #2 Member#3 Member#4 Member#5 Member#6 Member#7 Member#8 Member#9 Member#10
1954-1963[98] Milan Bogdanović Velibor Gligorić Eli Finci Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz Zoran Mišić Stevan Majstorović
1964 Petar Džadžić
1965-1970 Zoran Mišić Miloš I. Bandić Muharem Pervić
1971-1972 Midhad Begić Igor Mandić Draško Ređep
1973 Mladen Leskovac Dalibor Cvitan Radovan Vučković
1974 Žika Bogdanović Sreten Asanović Muharem Pervić
1975 Vuk Filipović Milan Vlajčić
1976 Jovica Aćin Sreten Marić Čedomir Mirković Vladimir Stojšin
1977-1979 Miloš I. Bandić Vaso Milinčević Vuk Krnjević Milosav Mirković
1980 Svetozar Koljević Milivoj Solar Milan Vlajčić Sreten Marić
1981 Boško Petrović Marko Nedić Andrej Inkart
1982 Dušan Veličković Nikola Kovač Muharem Pervić Igor Mandić
1983 Zoran Gluščević Jovica Aćin Teodor Anđelić Đorđije Vuković
1984 Slavko Leovac Velimir Visković
1985 Milivoj Srebro Vaso Milinčević Miroslav Egerić Novak Kilibarda Bogdan Tirnanić
1986 Predrag Matvejević Zdenko Lešić
1987 Jovan Deretić Ljubiša Jeremić Slavko Gordić Teodor Anđelić
1988 Branko Popović Svetozar Koljević Igor Mandić Novak Kilibarda
1989 Božo Koprivica Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz Gojko Tešić
1990 Svetlana Slapšak Marko Vešović Slavko Gordić Dušan Veličković Vasa Pavković
1991 Marko Nedić Pavle Zorić Sava Dautović
1992 Slavko Leovac Čedomir Mirković Miroslav Egerić
1993 Đorđe Janić Ljiljana Šop Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz

(honorary member)

1994 Stojan Vujičić Nikola Milošević Tihomir Brajović
1995 Petar Pijanović Mihailo Pantić Gojko Božović
1996 Nikola Milošević
1997 Đorđije Vuković Aleksandar Ilić Miroslav Egerić Želidrag Nikčević
1998 Branko Popović
1999-2000 Boško Ivkov Teofil Pančić Svetozar Koljević
2001 Adrijana Marčetić Tihomir Brajović
2002 Petar Pijanović Ivan Negrišorac Aleksandar Jerkov
2003 Dušan Marinković
2004-2005 Tihomir Brajović
2006 Milan Vlajčić Aleksandar Jovanović Stevan Tontić Slobodan Vladušić
2007-2008 Milo Lompar
2009 Aleksandar Ilić Mladen Šukalo
2010 Vasa Pavković Ljiljana Šop Mileta Aćimović Ivkov
2011-2013 Vladislava Gordić Petković Mića Vujičić
2013-2014 Božo Koprivica Jasmina Vrbavac Mihailo Pantić
2015-2017 Zoran Paunović Tamara Krstić
2018 Branko Kukić Ivan Milenković Marjan Čakarević
2019-2021 Teofil Pančić Marija Nenezić
2022[99] Milena Đorđijević Žarka Svirčev Goran Korunović
2023[100] Tamara Mitrović Violeta Stojmenović
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