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In Madonna's Jewels Blašković creates four voices that intertwine into a veritable quartet, singing about the agony of the turn of the millennium as they try to reconcile the iconography of the past with the present. Set in a prison infirmary during the NATO bombing of Serbia, Madonna’s Jewelry is a postmodern manual of political incorrectness. Sometimes profound and thoughtful, sometimes scathing, sometimes witty, all four narrators, each of whom is imprisoned justly but for the wrong reasons, encourage the reader to reflect on the meaning of form in an increasingly formless world.
Laslo Blašković (1966, Novi Sad) graduated in Yugoslav literature and worked as an editor, researcher and cultural manager in Vojvodina and Belgrade. He has published a number of poetry collections, novels, essays and short story collections. His works, especially Madonna's Jewelry, have been translated into Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Polish, German and English.
His most important works include the poetry collections The Life of Gamblers, Morning Distance, Writers' Wives, The End, the novels The Wedding March, Still Life with a Clock, Madonna's Jewelry, Adam's Apple, The Hunchback's Tournament, The Death Mask: A Picaresque Novel and the short story collection The Story of Exhaustion.
He has received several awards: the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award from the Branko Čopić Fund for the Best Serbian Novel (2005), the Stevan Sremac Award for the Prose Book of the Year (2007), and the Borislav Pekić Fund for Literature Scholarship for Madonna's Jewelry (2001).