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Vukša Veličković

Serbian writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ16218891 ↗
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Vukša Veličković (Вукша Величковић; born 18 February 1979) is a Serbian writer, journalist, cultural critic, artist and online producer based in New York City. He is a recipient of Milena Jesenska Journalism Fellowship, former Chevening Scholar and a former Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.

Velickovic maintained a column on B92.net from 2005-2007 and was the culture editor in Serbian newsmagazine Evropa until its folding in February 2008. He has written about London culture and lifestyle on his blog City of Doom and has published essays and magazine articles on culture and politics across various European media.

After graduating in International Relations at the University of Belgrade, Velickovic received the UK Chevening Scholarship in 2010 to complete his MA Degree in Identity, Culture and Power at The School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.

Velickovic has been the Creative Director and Head of Digital Media at Hominid Studio advertising agency with offices in Belgrade and New York City since 2013.

In 2019, he was the Creative Director for the award-winning advertising campaign "I am a donor, too. Because I support Serbia" by Hemofarm Foundation, which won two silver awards for Socially Responsible Campaign – Profit Sector, and Corporate and Internal PR, which are presented by UEPS – Serbian Association of Market Communications, as well as the Kaktus Award in the category ‘Socially responsible integrated campaign’ at the festival of integrated communications – KAKTUS 2019.

His first novel Gužva ('Crowd'), published in Serbian by Alexandria Press in 2003, contained a book-soundtrack CD featuring emerging electronic music artists from the Balkans.

In 2011, Velickovic founded Bturn, online culture magazine for the Balkans where he worked as Editor-in-Chief until its folding in 2014.

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“Vukša Veličković” enters the record as serbian writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vukša, Veličković and Serbian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16218891. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2005, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vukša Veličković” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.