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Gojan Nikolich

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Gojan Nikolich is a former newspaper reporter and editor and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He also reported for WGN and WBBM radio.

Abandoning a cushy executive career with an international public relations agency, he dragged his family to the Rocky Mountains, took a 50% pay cut, and worked with his wife as owners of a 100-year-old weekly small town newspaper. He now writes books in his Denver basement.

Nikolich’s novel Ashes in Venice was chosen Best Psychological Thriller of 2022 by BestThrillers.com.

“…his prose is entrancing,” Kirkus Reviews said of his Vietnam War novel, The Gopher King.

He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from DePaul University and served as a ...more

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