Vida Ognjenović

Vida Ognjenović Вида Огњеновић
Serbian Ambassador to Denmark
In office 13 June 2011 – 22 February 2013
Personal details
Born	(1941-08-14) 14 August 1941 (age 80) Dubočke Village, Nikšić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Political party	Democrats of Serbia (2021–present) Democratic Party (1990–1996; 2004–2020) Democratic Center (1996-2004)
Alma mater	University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology

Vida Ognjenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Вида Огњеновић, pronounced [ʋǐːda oɡɲěːnoʋitɕ]; born 14 August 1941) is a Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat.

Biography[]

Ognjenović completed primary education in the town of Vrbas, before going to Sremski Karlovci for gymnasium studies and later got degrees in world literature at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and directing at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts.

In 1989, she was one of the founders of the Democratic Party, the first opposition party in Serbia. She was appointed Ambassador to Norway representing Serbia and Montenegro from 2001 until 2006. She served as the ambassador of Serbia to Denmark from 2007 until 2013.

Her drama "Jegor's road" was inspired by the story about Russian monk from Praskvica Monastery.^[1]

She was one of the leading Parliamentary candidates of the Democratic Party in the January 2007 elections in Serbia. She was a vice-president of the Democratic Party.

Awards[]

In 2012, she was given the World Award of Humanism by the Ohrid Academy of Humanism.^[2]

Works[]

• Šekspiromanija (1980),
• Strah od scenske rasprave (1980),
• Melanholične drame (1991),
• Kanjoš Macedonović (1993),
• Devojka modre kose (1993),
• Setne komedije (1994),
• Otrovno mleko maslačka (1994),
• Kuća mrtvih mirisa (1995),
• Stari sat (1996),
• Mileva Ajnštajn (1999),
• Jegorov put (2000),
• Najlepše pripovetke (2001),
• Drame I-III (2001–2002),
• Putovanje u putopis (2006),
• Preljubnici (2006),
• Don Krsto (2007),
• Nasuprot proročanstvu (2007),
• Prava adresa (2007),
• Nema više naivnih pitanja (2008),
• Posmatrač ptica (2010),
• Živi primeri (2012)

External links[]

• Short biography in English

References[]

• ds.org.rs/sr^{[permanent dead link]}
• List of Parliamentary candidates of the Democratic party for the January 2007 elections - Vida Ognjenović is number 5 on the list^{[permanent dead link]}