Violeta Ivkovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1957. She is the author of Friends (1999), Stories from the Internet (2001), The Dining Room (2009), The Scrap of the Night (2010), and The Island (...view moreVioleta Ivkovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1957. She is the author of Friends (1999), Stories from the Internet (2001), The Dining Room (2009), The Scrap of the Night (2010), and The Island (2013). She won the 2009 Mali Nemo Award for The Dining Room. She was a columnist and IT journalist for the Serbian edition of Micro – PC World, magazines SciTech and Com&GSM. She lives in Belgrade, Serbia.view less