Marija Lazarević (Petković) was born on August 18, 1975. in Loznica (Serbia). She is a specialist in general medicine, primarius and a PhD student in neuroscience. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the General Medicine Section of Serbia, the Scientific Department of Mensa of Serbia and a reviewer of learned papers in the journal General Medicine of Serbia.

Marija is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and the author of eight books, four of which are collections of poems.

She is the winner of several awards in the fields of literature, poetry and medical science.

She is the winner of the award for the best poetic work on the occasion of the World Poetry Day, Serbian Educational and Cultural Association Prosveta, Zvornik, RS 2022, the award at the Drina literary competition for the best collection of stories “Tough stories” 2020, praise at the “Wolves lastari” competition for the cycle of poems 2022, laureate at the Darjeeling International Poetry Festival, April 2023 for the cycle of poems “Endless Bridge” organized by the “Literary Culture and International Poetry Forum” India, diploma of the Professional Association of Russian Writers “International Poetic Commonwealth”, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 2022.Her poems have been translated into several sacred languages and published in international anthologies of Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Mexico and India.

Books:

– psychological essay “Psychological games of politicians”, Everest media, 2019.

-poetry collection “Invention” Library of the Wolf’s Homeland, 2020.

– collection of stories “Hard Stories”, Library of the Wolf’s Homeland, 2020.

– a collection of stories “Meta-emotions in the Age of Corona”; Ace advertisement, Zvornik 2021.

– the collection of songs “Manifesto of the soul”; Ace advertisement, Zvornik 2021.

-scientific monograph “Medicines and food treatment for children with ASD”; Academic thought, Belgrade 2021.

– the collection of songs “Gold coin”; Ace advertisement, Zvornik 2022.

– the collection of poems “Brzovir”, Poetikum, 2022.