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Branko Rosić (1964) is a Serbian writer and a graduated mechanical engineer born in Belgrade. He was a member of the punk band Urbana Guerrilla, and later in the electro group Berliner Strasse. . He collaborated in the writing of the “Lexicon of YU Mythology” and published texts in Playboy, Elle, L'Europeo, Cosmopolitan, Max, National Geographic, B92 Online, Fame. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Nedeljnik".
Rosić conducted interviews with all important figures from the culture of the territory of the former Yugoslavia, but also interviews with important world figures – Steven Patrick Morrissey (The Smiths), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Yoko Ono, Hanif Kureishi, Irvine Welsh, Jo Nesbø, Jean-Paul Gaultier etc.
He is one of the first Serbian musicians who gave an interview to the famous English newspaper New Musical Express. He was the chief editor of the Festival Exit’ publication 20 years of Exit activism.
To British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he was introduced as “a punk in the guise of a journalist.” The British Queen Elizabeth II honored him with the Medal of the British Empire for exceptional contribution to the promotion of cultural ties between Great Britain and Serbia.
He is the author of three novels.
Dolazak matadora (The Arrival of the Matador)
Translation: Sašo Hristovski
Max is a talented actor, but he's in the shadow of his father's grand acting career. Despite his notable ambitions in the profession, it seems that life has other plans for him. A powerful woman will offer him to be a central part of a sophisticated fraud, and he won't be able to resist playing a leading role at least once in his life, risking everything he has gained.
Gavran is a marketing manager who can no longer bear corporate dictatorship and being a cog in the system that grinds all the people on this planet. He has a different vision, and when he falls in love with Kamus, he will give her an extraordinary gift – a societal revolution. The two embark on the footsteps of Joan of Arc, from Rouen to Paris and London...
Max and Gavran are two gamblers who boldly step into the corridor of the 21st century, where they will be met with many low blows.