Xenia Popovich (Ksenija Popović) carries the title of the first female novelist in her small south-eastern country of Montenegro. Born on February 18, 1977, raised in Italy and the United States, she graduated with honors from Milan's Universita Cattolica with degrees in English and Spanish Literature. She wrote her first novel "Dječak iz vode" (A Boy from the Water) at the age of eighteen, and published it in 2004, after her return to Montenegro. The novel became an instant bestseller in the Balkans and won an award. It was also turned into a film by Montenegrin director Marija Perović, with the title "Gledaj me" (Look at Me). Her second novel, A Lullaby for No Man's Wolf was also originally written in Montenegrin, and then self-translated into English and self-published on Amazon. Popovich currently works on television as a journalist and program director, and is writing scripts for both theater and television.