Renowned Serbian writer: Kosovo recognition from Serbia is a matter of time

Had Serbian writer Dragan Velikiq lived in Kosovo, he says the first thing he would do would be to teach Albanian. And it mentions many reasons for this, writes today “Koha Ditore”.

One of the most prominent names of today's Serbian literature author of ten novels, five collections of essays, double winner of NIN, one of the most important prices in the region, for the “Russian window” in 2007 and for “Islednik” In 2013, says Serbian society is destroyed, that politics does not care for people to think on their own.

Velikiq, whose books have been published up to 50,000 copies translated into 16 languages of the world, while the Albanian reader is now known only through “Russian Windows” published in 2008 by KOHA Publications, has been the guest of the International Literature Festival “Popus”, whose eighth edition ended in Pristina on Sunday, which for moto had the Free Department of Literature”.

In an interview for “Kahen Ditore”, in addition to culture and literature, he speaks of politics, the issue of recognising Kosovo, but the nationalism and nationalists the current Serbian government uses. Serbia's former ambassador to Vienna, from June 2005 through November 2009, recalls the day Kosovo's independence was declared, whose recognition by Serbia “is a time issue”.

“E now how to do this and remain in power -- this is not my problem”, says Velikiq, born in 1953 and raised in Pula, Croatia. Those who say that “Kosovo is Serbia”, the writer who left his country on March 24th 1999, when the NATO bombings began to deploy in Budapest and then in Vienna until 2005, say they are two-faced. He now lives as a free writer in the Serbian capital, from which the country says more and more people are leaving who can't find out among those who don't face reality.