One of the most Serbian writers. His prose books have been awarded several times in the country and the world, adapted to the dramatic forms and received significant international critical reception. He has won the World Prize for fiction in 2003. He is a regular professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. He graduated in 1973, majoring in General Literature with the theory of literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. At the same university he got a master's degree in 1979 and PhD in 1982.