Biography

About

Filip Grujić (1995) 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. His feature-length documentary Yugo Goes to America is currently in post-production.

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Published Novels

Theatre Plays

Award Winning Plays

Film in Production

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.

His feature-length documentary film “Yugo Goes to America”, which he wrote and directed, is currently in post production.

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.

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