Sladjana Nina Perkovic (1981) is a Franco-Bosnian journalist and a fiction writer. After finishing her studies in Political Sciences at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she mainly worked as a news correspondent for media outlets in ex-Yugoslavia. Her work has also been featured in many European news outlets such as The Guardian. Today, Sladjana is mostly committed to her writing career. She has published a collection of short stories Kuhanje (Cooking) and the novel U jarku (In the Ditch). U jarku was listed for the 2021 NIN and the “Meša Selimović” Award. The novel received a 2022 EUPL special mention.