About
Filip Grujic is a writer, playwright and film director from Belgrade, where he teaches at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. He is the author of the bestselling novel 'And Then, All Over Again' (Booka, 2023), as well as 'The Tenant' (LOM, 2020) and 'The Sinful Days of Cocky Johnny' (Samizdat, 2017). His plays have earned him the Mihiz Award and two Sterija Awards and have been translated, performed and studied internationally. Following its world premiere at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX, his feature documentary Yugo Goes to America won the Audience Award for Best European Documentary at Belgrade's Beldocs festival. He is represented by CAA.

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EDUCATION
MA in Dramaturgy | Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU), University of Arts, Belgrade 2019
BA in Dramaturgy | Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU), University of Arts, Belgrade 2018
AWARDS & HONORS
2026: Audience Award for Best European Documentary at the Beldocs festival for Yugo goes to America
2025: Winner of theSterija Award for Best Play forJezik kopačke
2023: Shortlisted for theNIN Award (Novel of the Year) forI onda opet, iz početka
2020: Winner of theMihiz Award for Dramatic Creativity (Overall Achievement)
2020: Shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature forPodstanar
2020: Shortlisted for theNIN Award for Podstanar
2019: Winner of theSterija Award for Best New Domestic Play forNe pre 4:30 niti posle 5:00
2019: Winner of theSlobodan Selenić Award for Best Graduation Play
2018: Winner of theBest Screenplay Award for short filmHunger at SEECS Bucharest
TEACHING
2021-... Assistant professor of Dramaturgy:Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade
2026-... Professor:Escuela de Escritores, Madrid, Spain
2025-... Guest Lecturer:ArtEZ University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025 Guest Lecturer: Sorbonne University, Etudes Slaves BCMS, Paris, France
2024 Guest Lecturer:UDG University, Podgorica, Montenegro
2022 Guest Lecturer:CeKaPe Winter School, Stara Sušica, Croatia
THEATRE (PLAYWRIGHT & DRAMATURG)
2024:Jezik kopačke (The Football Boot Tongue)
Role: Co-Writer (with Ivan Ergić)
Production: ZKM, Zagreb. Directed by Borut Šeparović.
2022:Tamo gde pevaju (Where They Sing)
Role: Playwright
Production: FIST. Directed by Đorđe Nešović.
2021:Bludni dani kuratog Džonija (The Sinful Days of Cocky Johnny)
Role: Original Author (Novel adapted for stage)
Production: Újvidéki Színház / Sterijino Pozorje. Directed by Jovana
Tomić
2020:Velika depresija (The Great Depression / Eben Byers’ Jaw)
Role: Playwright
Production: Serbian National Theatre (SNP).2020:Pred svitanje (Before Dawn / Not Before 4:30 Nor After 5:00)
Role: Playwright
Production: Atelje 212. Directed by Anđelka Nikolić.
2019:Ovde je lepo - sečem drvo, jedem pasulj (It’s Nice Here - I Cut Wood, I Eat Beans)
Role: Playwright
Production: FIST at National Theater. Directed by Milja Mazarak.
2018:Kako ja ovo sinu da objasnim? (How Do I Explain This to My Kids?)
Role: Playwright
Production: Reflektor Theater. Directed by Vojkan Arsić
FILM (SCREENPLAY & DIRECTING)
2023-2026:Yugo Goes to America (Documentary)
Role: Writer & Director
Premiere: CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark (2026)
Details: Feature-length documentary following a journey across the US in a
Yugo car. Supported by Eurimages, FCS, HAVC, United Media.
2018:Glad (Hunger) (Short Film)
Role: Screenwriter
Details: Directed by Tamara Todorović. Awarded Best Screenplay at SEECS
Bucharest
BOOKS (NOVELS)
2023: I onda opet, iz početka (And Then, All Over Again)
Publisher: Booka
Details: Bestseller (4 editions). Currently being translated into 10+
languages. Part of CELA program
2020:Podstanar (The Tenant)
Publisher: LOM
Details: A novel about the transient nature of modern life. Translated into
Bulgarian and Macedonian
2017:Bludni dani kuratog Džonija (The Sinful Days of Cocky Johnny)
Publisher: Samizdat B92
Details: Debut novel, later adapted into a theatre play
RADIO HOST & AUTHOR
2021-25:Čudna šuma (Strange Forest) at Radio Beograd 2
Details: Author of the weekly show hosting conversations with artists,
writers and philosophers
Listen:Link to Episodes
LITERARY RESIDENT
2025CELA - Connecting Emerging Literary Authors
2021Reading Balkans Program

Awards
Filip received the Mihiz Award for playwriting in 2020 and two Sterija Awards for the play "not before 4:30 nor after 5:00" (translated to French by the Maison Antoine Vitez Foundation and was studied at Sorbonne University) and "Football Boot Tongue".
He is also the author of the play “The Jaw of Eben Byers”. The play was also produced in Macedonia and translated into English.
Following its world premiere at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX, his feature documentary Yugo Goes to America won the Audience Award for Best European Documentary and a Special Mention in the Teen Selection at Belgrade's Beldocs festival..
Novels
I onda opet, iz početka” (And Then, All Over Again)
(Booka, 2023, bestseller in 2024) - 4 editions, more than 6000 copies sold, shortlisted for the NIN Award, excerpts translated into 10 languages as part of the CELA program.
“Podstanar” (The Tennant)
(LOM, 2020, three editions) – shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature & for the NIN Award; translated into Bulgarian and Macedonian, with excerpts in English for the Reading Balkans program.
“Bludni dani kuratog Džonija” (The Sinful Days of Cocky Johnny)
(Samizdat, 2017, two editions) – adapted into a theatre performance.