Slobodan Kalinovic won an anonymous competition for the best unpublished novel.
The winner of the fifth round of the contest for the best unpublished novel was Slobodan Kalinovic with the manuscript "Ernest Kuhn is about to die" (only Ernst Kuhn šhe is not dead), reported the Serbian publishing house Boka.
The competition is organized by Boka Publishing with the aim of finding new literary talents and supporting writers whose works have not yet been published. Its main feature is anonymity: manuscripts are evaluated by a jury without specifying the names of the authors, which allows the selection of the winner only on the basis of the literary merits of the work.
The publisher characterizes Kalinovich's winning novel as "dark, witty and deeply human". The action takes place in the spring of 1945, when the war is coming to an end, and justice and revenge are almost indistinguishable.
As noted in the Boca Report, the novel deals with power, fear, family relationships and historical upheaval. This story is "told in a voice hardly found in modern Russian prose."