He published the novels Gubilište (1962), Moja sestra Elida (1965), Životopis Malvine Trifković (1971), Ruganje s dušom (1976), Vrata od utrobe (1978), Uvod u drugi život (1983), Kristalne rešetke (1995), Grad u zrcalu (2007) and Vrijeme koje se udaljava (2013), the books of stories Rane Luke Meštrevića (1971), Nebeski zaručnici (1987), Na odru (1996), Ruže za Nives Koen (2010) and Malvina i druge priče (2012). He published several books of essays, drama, letters and memoirs. He wrote plays, TV dramas and screenplays.

He received numerous awards, including the NIN Award (1978), the Andrić Award (1979), the Tucholsky Award (1993), the Herder Prize (2007), the “Meša Selimović” Award (2007), the “Vladimir Nazor” Award (2007), the 13^th July Award (2008), the Njegoš Award (2009), the Kiklop Award (2012)…

He was a member of the Duklja Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.

He died on 19 August 2013 in Rovinj.

In his last completed novel, Grad u zrcalu – A City in the Mirror, the great master of storytelling, Mirko Kovač turned to the sources of his narrative adventure: the past, family and homeland.

The mythical town of L., on the historical and geographical border of the worlds, in the triangle between Nikšić, Trebinje and Dubrovnik, is an area where the memories of childhood and family stories that took place during the entire 20^th century are revived by the narrator of the novel Grad u zrcalu. As a lyrically intoned family chronicle, this novel is, at the same time, a literary convincing testimony of space and time and a complex story about family relationships, and, above all, a melancholic recap of a lifetime and artistic experience and, as the author said, “the funeral of one of the worlds”. Through 65 narrative micro-units which can figure also as independent texts, Kovač, in a manner of chronicles, conjures up a world of a border and growing up, shown through a subjective filter of narrator’s memories and enriched by lucid intimate insights of a skilled chronicler.