Pavle Zelić

Pavle Zelić (Serbian Cyrillic: "Павле Зелић") is one of the most promising young fiction writers in Serbia. He was born in Belgrade in 1979. Graduated from the Pharmaceutical Faculty in Belgrade in 2005 and now works in that field. Fluent in English and French, and has a basic knowledge of Italian and Spanish. He is a great connoisseur of comics and movies.

Biography

He wrote movie, literary and comic reviews as well as articles for several prestigious literary and popular magazines. He is a full-time columnist in OK Magazine, Znak Sagite and Think Tank. He is also a full-time columnist for the prestigious Web magazine Popboks.He was an editor of the Emitor fanzine published by the [http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D1%99%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%99%D0%B0_%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5_%E2%80%9E%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%9B%E2%80%9C Lazar Komarcic] science fiction society. One of the issues of Emitor he edited received a Best European Science Fiction Fanzine award at the EUROCON convention in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 2004.

He was one of the organizers of the “Beokon – OKO ZVEZDE” convention in Belgrade for the Lazar Komarcic society in 2006. He also organized the presentation of Lazar Komarcic at the regional World Cyber Games 2004. He was the first to initiate the cooperation between the science fiction societies in Serbia by organizing the “Supernova stage” at the 2006 EXIT festival with Relja Trajkovic of the Photon Tide science fiction group. This cooperation was successful in promoting the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres. It was the first stage of this type at the festival. He held many lectures and debates during regular meetings of the Lazar Komarcic society.

Editor of anthology of short fantastic erotic stories [http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5_%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5) Ugriz strasti] published in 2007 in Serbia.

He wrote many stories and participated in a number of literary contests. His stories were published in the magazines Politikin Zabavnik and Znak Sagite, the Nova and Emitor fanzines, as well as in anthologies Price sa One Strane (Stories from the Other Side) and Bolja Polovica (The Better Half) in Croatia, periodical 9 in Greece, and also in one of the five biggest literary magazines in Serbia Nas Trag (Our Trace) and many more.

Photo by Uros Petrovic

Stories

* The Pool (Bazen)

* Public Enemy No.1 (Državni neprijatelj broj 1)

* Beneath the Graves (Ispod grobova)

* The Best Customer in the World (Najbolja mušterija na svetu)

* At Night (Noću)

* The Smile of the Rattlesnake (Osmeh zvečarke)

* The Right Words (Prave reči)

* Sammie (Sami)

* The Great Snowball Fight (Veliko grudvanje)

* The Green Corn (Zeleni kukuruzi)

* The Kites of Santiago (Zmajevi Santjaga)

* The Last Big Adventure of Tarzan (Tarzanova poslednja velika avantura)

Links

[http://www.lazarkomarcic.org.yu The Science Fiction Society Lazar Komarcic]
[http://www.photontide.org The Science Fiction Society Photon Tide]
[http://www.konef.org.yu The Science Fiction Society KONEF]
[http://www.sciencefiction.org.yu The Science Fiction Society SCI&FI]
[http://www.znaksagite.com Znak Sagite]
[http://www.rastko.org.yu Rastko - The Library of Serbian Culture]