Gordana Timotijević

Gordana Timotijević, born in 1954, is a literary translator and author of children’s books. She studied German Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. After finishing her studies, she worked as a translator and interpreter as well as an editor for children’s literature and translations at the library in Kraljevo. Timotijević has authored 11 books for young readers and has been organizing literary workshops for children since 1999. She is also a member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Timotijević has translated 14 children’s books from German into Serbian, including works by Andrea Reitmeyer, Cornelia Funke, Herman Hesse, and Marc Uwe Kling. Her latest translations are of Der Buchfresser (2022) and, with support from TRADUKI, Der Mondscheindrache (2022) by Cornelia Funke.