Read and Appreciated in 2003
An Editorial Year’s Best List
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts, eds.
- Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes, Tamar Yellin
- Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer
- The Fatal Eggs and Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov
- Collected Stories, Jaroslav Hasek
- Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, Bohumil Hrabal
- The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ardent Patience, Antonio Skarmeta
- I Am Not Afraid, Nicolo Ammaniti
- A Year in the Linear City, Paul di Filippo
Zoran Zivkovic, winner in 2003 of a World Fantasy Award for his novella “The Library”, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1948. He graduated in theory of literature from the Department of General Literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade in 1973; he received his master’s degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school.
His novels The Book and The Writer are available in a single volume from Prime Books. Forthcoming publications include The Fourth Circle (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2004) and Hidden Camera (Dalkey Archive Press, 2004).
Copyright © 2003 by Zoran Živković.





