Miloš Latinović was born on September 23, 1963 in Kikinda. He completed primary and secondary school in Kikinda, and the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, where he got his MA entitled: Sterija Pozorje and the Theatre Life of Serbia. He has been undertaking PhD studies at the same faculty.

He worked as a journalist in the newspaper “Komuna” and Radio Kikinda, and collaborated with the editorial offices of several daily newspapers and magazines in Serbia, including “Dnevnik” (Novi Sad), “Borba” (Belgrade), “National Geography” and others. For several years, he edited a literary section called Manuscripts, a Serbian diaspora newspaper “Umbrella”, published in Vancouver, Canada. In 1999, he received the Interfer Festival’s “Grand Prix” Award in Sombor for the newspaper reportage In the Middle of the Field around the Sea published in the magazine “Nedeljni dnevnik.”

From 1999 to 2001, he was the director of the “Jovan Popović” National Library in Kikinda, and from 2003 to 2008 he was the General Manager of the National Theatre in Kikinda. As a member of the Kikinda municipal council, he was in charge of the Department of Culture, Education and Media from 2008 to 2013.

He participated in the initiation and organization of the expert theoretical symposium “Kikinda Dialogues”, held in the city from 2002 to 2005 with the participation of eminent sociologists, culturologists, philosophers and other theoreticians from Serbia and the surrounding area.

He has authored six short story collections, nine novels, two books of essays, two monographs and a dozen dramatic texts (five of which were published in theatre and literary periodicals), of which Pannonian Carousel and Payador or Crnjanski have been performed in Kikinda National Theatre, Blood of the Red Rooster in the National Theatre in Niš, Wrath According to Grigori in the National Theatre in Pristina and Film I Didn’t Make in the production of the Fort Forno Festival in Bale (Croatia). He has published more than a hundred literary articles in periodicals, weekly and daily newspapers.

The novel Shakespeare’s Client (Stilos, Novi Sad) was shortlisted for the NIN award in 2002. Following two Serbian editions (Čigoja Press, Belgrade and Prometheus, Novi Sad) the book Tales of the Winds has been translated into Romanian and German, and One Hundred Days of Rain into Bulgarian (Persej, Sofia). The novels Shakespeare’s Client, Four Madnesses and Stages of the Night, have been translated into Russian (Skifia, Saint Petersburg), while Shakespeare’s Client has also been translated into Macedonian (Bukvi buks, Skopje). Also, numerous prose texts of his have been translated into English, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian and Macedonian.

The Jury of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina declared the novel The Executioner in Heaven (Stilos, Novi Sad) the Book of the Year in 2008, while the poetry-prose collection Stars and Islands (Geopoetika, Belgrade) received the “Stevan Pešić” Award in 2012. For the novel One Hundred Days of Rain (Vulkan Publishing House, Belgrade) he was given the prestigious award “Golden Sunflower” (Vital Award) in 2014. The novel Stages of the Night (Vulkan Publishing House, Belgrade) received the “Laza Kostić” Award from the Novi Sad Book Saloon (2020) and “Kočić’s Quill” Award (2022).

For his poetry, he was awarded the first prize at the Spring Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.

An essay about an actor entitled Between the Dragon and His Wrath was awarded the first prize – the Golden Feather Award at the competition in Požarevac.

He is the editor-in-chief of the theatre magazine “Scena,” published by Sterijia Pozorje in Novi Sad.

He currently serves as the General Manager of the BITEF Theatre.

He is married and has two children.