Balša Brković was born on 25 September 1966 in Podgorica.

He published the books of poetry Konji jedu breskve (1985), Filip boje srebra (1991), Rt Svete Marije (1993), Contrapposto (1998) and Dvojenje (2001), a book of stories Berlinski krug (2008), and the novels Privatna galerija (2002), Paranoja u Podgorici (2010) and Plaža Imelde Markos (2013). He was engaged in literary and theatre criticism, as well as the essays’ writing. His work has been translated into several languages.

For the novel Privatna galerija, he was awarded the Miroslavljevo Jevanđelje Award in 2004.

Privatna galerija – Private Gallery by Balsa Brkovic signaled an emergence of a generation of Montenegrin writers of a new sensibility, aimed at questioning traditional model of fiction writing and thinking, and facing the poetic paradigms of contemporary literature.

The main character and narrator in Privatna galerija, Bartholomew Baki Braunović, is the editor of the local newspaper and a cynical chronicler of the end of the millennium. Ten stories and the epilogue of Privatna galerija construct a kind of urban mythology of new Podgorica. The gallery of characters of this roman à clef makes a cross section of the world in transition, which, through anecdotal episodes seasoned with narrator’s discursive passages and long intellectual dialogues, saturated with numerous quotes, is populated by the artists, shady characters, the city’s faces, fathers and children and mystifying persons of various types. In the new transitional jungle of new Podgorica, accompanied by his brother Kuzma, Baki develops a business worthy of inauthentic time which they live in – for a new class they forge non-existent images, the ones that owe their existence to literary texts.