Gojko Celebic (Cyrillic: ????? ???????) (born 1958) is a Montenegrin writer and diplomat.
Celebic was born in Podgorica, Montenegro (at that time part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
He finished high school in Cetinje, Montenegro.
Celebic went on to study at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, Serbia and Podgorica, Montenegro.
He then graduated from DAMU (Prague, in that time Czechoslovakia) in 1989 with a degree in dramaturgy.
During the dissident movement in East Europe, through which Celebic build himself as a creator of similar works, beginning in the 1980s he directed numerous theatrical pieces of dissident writers and began to publish dramas, poetry, short stories and novels.
He also spent some time as a Prague student in Schauspielhaus, Berlin in 1987 as he participated in a seminar on Bertolt Brecht.
In 1989 he received a masters in Prague through his thesis on Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Celebic's political career began with a position as the minister of culture in Montenegro, in the government of Prime Minister Milo Ðukanovic, a mandate that lasted from 1993–1996.
Following which he served as the ambassador of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Argentina for the period between 1998–2002, (submitted credentials to President Carlos Saúl Menem on the August 12, 1998).
During the same period, Celebic also served as a non-residing ambassador to Uruguay, (submitted credentials to President Julio Maria Sanguinetti on the November 11, 1998).
In addition, he served as a non-residing ambassador to Paraguay during the same time, (submitted credentials to the President Raúl Cubas Grau on February 9, 1999).
Following these mandates, he was appointed minister-counselor at the Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in Japan from 2005 until Montenegro's Independence in 2006.
Currently Celebic serves as a Deputy Permanent Representative of Montenegro to the United Nations in New York.
By a literary vocation, Celebic is a novelist, channeling the traditional European philosophical novel.
Nevertheless, his literary historical interests are linked to European baroque, and aspects related to south Slavic languages and culture, especially things dealing with medieval and baroque Kotor.
The most significant influence on his literary development, which became evident in his work, was the American (and later European) Hippie movement.
In addition, the dissident literature such as that of Milovan Djilas and Vladimir Nabokov as well as numerous writers of his own generation in Poland, Germany, and Russia have been very significant in the process of his artistic creation.
In the beginning of the 1990s, Celebic founded and directed two anthological projects.
The first was a collection of novel published in twenty volumes, which presents the anthology of Montenegrin novels in the 20th century.
The second, of which he is also the creator, is a complete anthology of the Montenegrin literature that has been in development for the last thousand years.
These works were created in four languages: Latin, Italian, Serbian and Church Slavonic.
It has also been published by his conduct in twenty-three volumes in a collection entitled Literature of Montenegro 12th to 19th century.
Celebic is a polyglot (fluent in English, French, Czech, Russian, and Spanish).
The following is a list of Celebic's published works by their year of appearance
Novels:
A Heroic Novel about Women's Tears (Viteski roman o ženskim suzama) 1983
The Murder of A.G.
W and Persecution (Ubistvo A.
G.
W.
i gonjenje) 1988
Mature Herta (Zrela Herta) 1989
Pseudo, 1994
City Club, 1995
Spiders (Pauci), 1997
Lightening (Grom) 2003
Twins (Blizanci) 2004
Buried, Listen (Pokopani, cujte) 2006
Collection of Short Stories:
A Farewell from the King (Oproštaj od kralja) 1992
The Atlantic Waves (Valovi Atlantika) 2001
Candidacy (Kandidatura) 2003
Dust in Love (Zaljubljeni prah) 2004
Bohemian Season (Boemska sezona) 2007
Poetry:
Lira in Purgatory (Lira u cistilištu) 1982
Drama:
Baroque (Barok) 1995
Selected works:
Selected works of Gojko Celebic 1–10 (Odabrana djela Gojka Celebica I – X) 2004
Bibliography:
Celebic's bibliographies, that is special publishings of his books, translations, essays, dramas, criticism, political pieces, translations of his work in numerous languages, newspaper articles, reviews, etc.
written between 1976–2004 total 416 titles.
Selected References
1.
Baroque – Theatrical piece—Sremski Karlovci: Krovovi: Culture Center “Karlovci’s art workshop” 1995.
(Apatin—Novi Sad: King of Whiteness) –pg.
164.
(Library of modern literature) Notes on the writer pg.
162.
3.
IL FUCILE
In: Orme sull’ Adriatico: Poesia del-la Puglia e del Montenegro/ Scelta degli autori montenegrini: Steve Kordic; traduzioni in italiano e dall/ italiano: Dragan Mraovic—Nikšic: Univerzitetska rijec; Bari: La valissa, 1990, pg.
62.
Songs.
4.
The Welcoming in the name of the City
In: Anthology of modern Montenegrin stories/ prepared by: Slobodan Kalezic and Vojislav D.
Reservist
In: Sovremenaya (Moscow) Number 2 (1996), pg.
131–153.
Drama—Translated by: Natalija Vagapova.
6 BORHES & Zmajevic
In: Jorge Luis Borges: Works of international literature and science meeting dedicated to H.L.
Borges held on the 24 and 25 September in 1996, in Belgrade and other texts.
Prepared by: Radivoje Konstantinovic, Filip Matic, Marko Nedic—Belgrade: Institute for textbooks and other teaching material: Serbian cooperative for literature: Partnership of Yugoslavia and Latin America, 1997 pg.
161–166.
7.
Intolerance
In: New Macedonia –(1997).
Selections from the novel “Pseudo”.
8.
Literature Montenegro: (krimipovidka)
In: Souvislosti (revue pro krestanství a kulturu).
–Number 3-4 (1997), pg.
277–289.
Translated by: Lenka Blechova
9.
City Club: Literárni text.
In: Literarni noviny (Czech) Edition 11, Number 40 (2000), Pg.10.
Translated by: Lenka Blechova.
10.
The Atlantic Waves
In: Montenegrin Erotic Stories.
Editor: Jovan Nikolaidis—Ulcinj:Plima, 2000, pg.
33–51.
Story.
11.
Symbols in Poetry of Joseph Brodsky
In: Pobjeda—Edition 26, Number 5329 (4.X 1980), pg.
12.
Notes on the element of darkness in literary songs “Station in the desert”
12.
I’m an intellectual, but that is a matter of reading.
In: Pobjeda, Edition 42, Number 7208 (29.XII 1985), pg.11
The talk with the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal was led by Gojko Celebic.
13.
Nabokov
In: Ovdje (Here)—Edition 21, Number 244-245(1989), pg.40
In his own creativity
14.
Word of the word
In: Pobjeda: Edition 47, number 9935 (31.
VII 1993), pg.
7.
On the fifth century anniversary of Montenegrin press
15.
Karel Capek
In: Kompozitor Foltin/Karel Capek—Belgrade; Rad, 1990, pg.111–115.
About the makings of K.
Capek
16.
Short history of Montenegro
In: Royal Theatre “Zeta Hall”, Cetinje, 1996 pg.2–10.
17.
Draperies
In: Stvaranje— Edition 52.
Number 11-12 (1997), pg.1185–1186.
About the artist Savo Braunovic
18.
Milovan Djilas: Un destino disidente.
In: Revista diplomatica Placet—Number 117 (2001).
19.
Review of the American Drama
In: Pobjeda, Edition 45, Number 8443 (3.
VI 1989), pg.13.
About the music festival “Prague Spring” and the current cultural happening is Prague.
20.
MEYERCHOLOMASCHINE The culture of totalitarianism
In: Stvaranje, Edition 44 Number 1 (1990) pg.
97–125.
“Hrestomatija uz Mejerholjdova ‘Revizora’”
21.
EGZEKUTORI
In: Grand Theater Budva 1987—1996 First 10 years.
Prepared by: Jovan Cirilov, Feliks Pašic--Budva, Grand Theater 1998, pg.72.
Performance based on the work of Harold Pinter.
Directed by Gojko Celebic in the Montenegrin National Theater.
(1993)
22.
PARK
In: The Gran Theater Budva 1987–1996, first 10 years.
Prepared by Cirilov, Feliks Pašic—Budva, Grand Theater, 1998, pg.56.
Performance based on Skeaksear’s “Dream of a summer night” directed by Gojko Celebic, and ran by the Herzegovian National Theater.
(1990)
23.
SEIFERT, Jaroslav Songs/ Jaroslav Seifert
In: Ovdje—Edition 17, Number 189 (1985) pg.
11.
Contains the following songs: The tomb of mister Casanova, The ring of king Otakar I, Compound source, Cashmere scarf.
Bolica, Ivan Bona, Description of Ivan Bona Bolica.
In: Pobjeda—Edition 52, Number 11083 (19.X1996), pg.15.
In the seventh volume edition of “Literature of Montenegro XII-XIX century” first time in the adoption of Gojko Celebic, you will find the poem of a Kotor poet from the 16th century.
26.
Creando en una de las esquinas del mundo.
In: Lecturas de los Domingos—Edition 3, Number 162 (30.
IV 2000), pg.8–9.
Con Gojko Celebic, escritor y embajador Yugoslavo (interview).
27.
Pavkovic, Vasa
Evil and tittup of stories/Vasa Pavkovic.
In: Politika—Edition 60, Number 28686 (21.
VIII 1993), pg.16.
About Gojko Celebic's novel, “A farewell from the king”.
28.
Cirilov, Jovan.
When the minister writes.../Jovan Cirilov
In: Politika—Edition 61, Number 28996 (9.