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(Cyrillic: Борис Миљковић) born in April 1956 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a prolific Serbian artist of many talents - TV and theatre director, video artist, creative director in advertising, writer and a lecturer at the Belgrade University of Arts. Lives in Belgrade, Serbia.

Miljkovic first studied History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and later graduated from the Department of TV and Film Directing of Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Belgrade. Together with [Branimir Dimitrijevic] he became a part of a famous directing tandem Boris and Tucko who authored many TV programs and films in the 80s, including Niko kao ja (No One Like Me), Rokenroler (Rockenroller), Ruski umetnicki eksperiment (Russian Artistic Experiment) and Sumanovic - komedija umetnika (Sumanovic - A Comedy of an Artist), just to name a few. Many of the projects were awarded at prestigious European TV festivals. Their TV engagement was a key part of the 80s New Wave music movement in ex-Yugoslavia (New Wave in Yugoslavia). Boris has also directed a countless number of TV commercials and music video clips.

At the beginning of the Balkan conflict in 1991 Miljkovic moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he spent five years working as an advertising director for Saatchi and Saatchi for the Middle East. Upon his return to Belgrade, he was appointed as a creative director for McCann Erickson for the Balkans. He now works as a freelance creative consultant in advertising.

Boris has contributed to the development of theatrical art in a capacity as a director and a creative stage manager. He directed Bride of the Wind (Nevjesta od vjetra) (2003) at Belgrade National Theatre (Narodno Pozoriste) and Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale (Prica o vojniku) (2005) at Atelier 212 (Atelje 212). He also created a number of video projects for theatre plays at The Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP): Dog Waltz (Pceci valcer) (2004), Grasshoppers (Skakavci) (2005) and Barbelo, of Dogs and Children (Barbelo, o psima i deci) (2007), all directed by Dejan Mijac.

In recent years Miljkovic has become a fixture on the Serbian literary scene with a number of books all published by Geopoetika in Belgrade:

• Caj na Zamaleku (Tea at Zamalek) (2002), a collection of short stories, won a prestigious Serbian literary award Isidora Sekulic,
• Fabrika hartije (Paper Factory) (2003), a collection of short stories,
• Uspavanka za Lalu (Lullaby for Lala) (2004), a novel,
• Poljupci, secanja i razgovori (Kisses, Memories, and Conversations) (2006), a novel with didascalic notes.