led by Vuk Drašković. He was the President of Serbian Renewal Movement parliamentary fraction in the Serbian Parliament during the first pluralist National Assembly (1991–1992), also the leader of the parliamentary fraction (1993–1994) of DEPOS - "Democratic Movement of Serbia" (a large union of major opposition parties and numerous individuals not belonging to any of the political parties). Rakitić was the president of the Association of Writers of Serbia from 1994 until 2005. In 2013 he was posthumously awarded the literature award "Jelena Balšić", established by the 'Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral', and is awarded every two years. References 1940 births 2013 deaths People from Prokuplje Serbian writers Serbian novelists Serbian Renewal Movement politicians 20th-century Serbian novelists University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery