Stanković was born in
Belgrade,
SR Serbia,
SFR Yugoslavia on 2 November 1965. After graduating with a degree in
architecture, he moved to
London, England, where he lived until 1995. Subsequently, Stanković relocated to
Lisbon, Portugal. There he pioneered translating literary works from Serbian language to Portuguese and vice versa. Among others, Stanković translated the works of
Jose Saramago,
Ivo Andrić and
Dragoslav Mihailović. His first book,
Odakle sam bila, više nisam i druge lisabonske priče, was published under Geopoetika in 2011. It was followed by the critically acclaimed
Estoril in 2015. The book was nominated several international awards, including the Serbian
NIN Award and the
International Dublin Literary Award. His final work,
Zamalek, published through Laguna in 2020, was introduced to the school
book report in Portugal. In 2017, Tiago-Stanković signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks and
Montenegrins. In the evening of 20 December 2022, Stanković died at his home in Lisbon at the age of 57. == Bibliography ==