Petar Luković (21 January 1951 – 12 February 2024), nicknamed Pero s onog sveta(transl. Pero from the Great Beyond), was a Serbian journalist, newspaper editor and onetime rock critic. He attended the Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium, and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.[1]
In the period from 1991 to 1996, he worked for the Belgrade weekly Vreme, where he was also deputy editor-in-chief for a time. From 1996 to 1998, he wrote for Naša Borba.
In the period from January 1996 until the beginning of the bombing of FR Yugoslavia in March 1999, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine X Zabava.
Luković also published three books: A Better Past (1989), Ćorava Kutija (1993) and Godine Raspada — Chronicle of Serbian Decline (2000).
In 1994, he received the Dragiša Kašiković Award as one of the first three laureates, and the Staša Marinković Award of the daily newspaper Danas was received in 2001.[6]
Petar Luković was on the electoral list of LDP, GSS, SDU, LSV for the parliamentary elections in Serbia held on 21 January 2007, but he failed to become a deputy due to the insufficient number of votes received by this coalition.
As of 2022, Luković was editor-in-chief and columnist at the online magazine XXZ Regional Portal, based in Belgrade.[7][8][9]
Petar Luković died after a protracted illness on 12 February 2024, at the age of 73.[10]
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