About me

BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY

Radovan Ždrale is a reputable sculptor and writer born in Balkan region-Bosnia and Herzegovina 1929. His passion for stone started very early and he found a  piece of his world while carving stone.

This artist is gifted in many ways proving that through out his carrier. As a writer he published 26 books, novels, short stories and  poems.

On the other side of art, carving 4,000 precious stone scultpures and several dozen stone mosaics makes him  one of the most talented artist in Eastern Europe.

All these achivements call for special attention showing Radovan’s contribution to our literature and fine arts.

A significant part of Ždrale’s literary and sculptural work is dedicated to the work and figure of Nikola Tesla. . Geograficly and culturaly Radovan is really close to Nikola Tesla and that is where all of the interest and continuously  admiriaton begins.

Radovan’s Achievements:

  • Graduated literature in Yugoslavia from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
  •  Editor of the literary magazine “Vidici”
  •  A professor of literature in North Serbia-Subotica;
  •  The editor in chief of the literary magazine “Rukovet”;
  • Professor of Yugoslav literature at the Pedagogical Academy;
  • Director of the City Library in Novi Sad;
  • Director and editor in chief of Matica Srpska Publishing Company until his retirement in 1990.
  • Currently he lives in north of Serbia-Novi Sad.

Sculpture works:

  • Legacy collection “Fruška gora: stone and forms” in the Institute for Nature Protection in Novi Sad, contains 147 works of semi-precious and decorative stones;
  • Legacy collection “The World of Stone” in the Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje, 270 works of semi-precious and decorative stones
  • Legacy collection of sculptural works “Stone inhabitants of Fruška Gora” in Matica srpska and in the Gallery of Matica srpska in Novi Sad, contains 64 sculptural works.

Sculpture exhibitions:

  • In the National Museum in Belgrade, 1989
  • In the Natural History Museum in Novi Sad, 1997
  • In the Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje, 1998
  • In the City Library in Subotica, 2001
  • In the Aviation Gallery in Zemun, 2017
  • At the Kolarac University in Belgrade, 2018

Awards and acknowledgements:

  • The Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 dedicated to the life and work of Nikola Tesla of the American Science Foundation “NikolaTesla” from Philadelphia;
  • “Stražilovo” award for the novel “Moon Harvest”;
  • Award of the Italian literary magazine “Tutti gli omini” for the best European short story translated into Italian “Il ragazzo e la luna” (“The Boy and the Moon”) in 1968.
  • The Lifetime Achievement Award for promotion and work of Nikola Tesla-Serbian Foundation-2023.