📓 The poetry collection “Butcher’s Tenderness” by Andrija Radović will be presented as part of the regular program of the “Budo Tomović” KIC on Monday, October 5th, in the DODEST hall, starting at 8 PM. The book will be discussed by the author and the writer Barbara Delać.

📖 The book “Butcher’s Tenderness” was published as the winning manuscript at the Ratković’s Evening of Poetry 2025 competition in Bijelo Polje, for poets under 27.

✍️ Andrija Radović was born in Podgorica on May 29th, 1998. He has published the poetry collections “The Metrically Perfect Thrombus” (Fokalizator, Podgorica, 2023) and “Butcher’s Tenderness” (Ratković’s Evenings of Poetry). His poems have been published in literary magazines such as Fokalizator (Podgorica), Ars (Cetinje), Književne novine (Belgrade), Trag (Vrbas), Fantom slobode (Zagreb), Alternator (Sisak), and Panache (Paris). He is featured in the selection of contemporary Montenegrin literature “Traces of (Non)Belonging” (2025), among fourteen authors, published in the Croatian magazine Tema, compiled by Dragana Tripković.

🔹️ His work has been translated into German and Macedonian, as well as French, as part of the second and third volumes of the New BHCS Poetry edition (Nouvelle poésie BHCS) by the French publishing house Slavitude. He is the winner of the first prize at the Ratković’s Evenings of Poetry for authors under 27 (2025) for the manuscript “Butcher’s Tenderness.” At the Festival of Young Poets in Vrbas, he was a finalist and winner of the second prize (2025), while in 2022, he won the third prize at the same festival. He is the laureate of the Radovan Zogović Days festival in Kolašin (2020) and was a finalist at the Poetry Days festival in Zaječar (2022).

🔺️ He is a poetry editor at the Fokalizator publishing house in Podgorica. He is a member of the Montenegrin Society of Independent Writers (CDNK).

He graduated from the Faculty for Montenegrin Language and Literature. He is a journalist for the culture section of the daily newspaper Pobjeda. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Journalist Award presented by the Society of Montenegrin Journalists in 2025.

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