Olja Bećković
{{Short description|Serbian journalist, actress and television presenter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Olja Bećković
{{small|Оља Бећковић}}
| honorific_suffix = ChLD
| image = File:Olja Bećković.jpg
| image_size = 250px
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| caption = Bećković receiving the 2013 Jug Grizelj Award in March 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1964|5|1}}
| birth_place = Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
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| nationality = Serbian
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| alma_mater = Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
| occupation = Journalist
| years_active = 1984–present
| television = RTV Studio B (1991–1996)
B92 (2002–2014)
Nova S (2019–present)
| parents = Matija Bećković
Vera Pavladoljska
}}
Olja Bećković {{post-nominals|list=ChLD}} ({{lang-sr-cyr|Оља Бећковић}}; born 1 May 1964) is a Serbian journalist, actress and television presenter.
She hosted political talk show Utisak nedelje (English: Impression of the Week) from 1991 until 2014 and again as of 2019.{{Cite news |url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society.php?yyyy=2006&mm=09&dd=04&nav_id=36486 |title=Serbian tabloids mark targets |date=4 September 2006 |publisher=B92}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.danas.rs/drustvo/utisak-nedelje-od-1-aprila-na-top-kanalu/|title="Utisak nedelje" od aprila svake nedelje na TOP kanalu|last=Online/N1|first=Piše: Danas|date=2019-02-07|website=Dnevni list Danas|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-05-14}}
Career
Bećković studied drama in Belgrade{{Cite news |title=Biografija iz indeksa |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/pregled_stampe.php?yyyy=2004&mm=11&dd=17&nav_id=155952 |publisher=B92 |date=17 November 2004 }} and trained as an actress until the age of twenty five before switching over to journalism.{{Cite news |url=http://www.pressonline.rs/sr/vesti/dzet_set_svet/story/111886/Na%C5%A1i+nezaboravni+studentski+dani.html |publisher=Press Online |date=14 April 2010 |title=Naši nezaboravni studentski dani |language=Serbian }}
In March 2014, Bećković received the Jug Grizelj Award.[http://www.b92.net/video/vesti.php?yyyy=2014&mm=03&dd=14&nav_id=823837 Olji Bećković uručena nagrada Jug Grizelj];B92, 14 March 2014[http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2014&mm=03&dd=14&nav_id=823667 Olji Bećković uručena nagrada];B92, 14 March 2014 Her talk programme Utisak nedelje got taken off the air in September 2014 in controversial fashion.
In April 2015, Bećković got hired by the NIN weekly newsmagazine for a monthly interview feature called 'Intervju meseca'.{{cite news|author=Beta|author-link=Beta News Agency|url=http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/553264/Olja-Beckovic-ce-raditi-intervjue-za-NIN|title=Olja Bećković će raditi intervjue za NIN|agency=Blic|date=23 April 2015|accessdate=6 May 2015}} Her first interview was with Slavoljub Đukić.
In the months following her removal from B92, Bećković became a recipient of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur award, which was handed to her on 30 April 2015 at a ceremony in the French embassy in Belgrade.[http://www.ambafrance-srb.org/Remise-des-insignes-de-Chevalier-2551 Remise des insignes de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur à Mme Olja BECKOVIC, journaliste];Ambassade de France à Belgrade, April 2015 At the ceremony, the French ambassador in Serbia Christine Moro explained the accolade as being awarded to Bećković for "her exceptional professional path, courage, and fearlessness" while adding that by awarding Bećković "France is also extolling the journalistic profession as a whole".{{cite news|author=Tanjug|author-link=Tanjug|url=http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/555302/Francuska-dodelila-orden-Legije-casti-Olji-Beckovic|title=Francuska dodelila orden Legije časti Olji Bećković|agency=Blic|date=30 April 2015|accessdate=6 May 2015}}
Personal life
Bećković is the daughter of Serbian poet Matija Bećković and Vera Pavladoljska.{{Cite web |publisher=International Crisis Group |title=Montenegro's Referendum |date=30 May 2006 }}
During her late teens, Bećković was briefly married to theater director Nenad Ilić.{{cite news|last=Džodan|first=Neven|url=http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/433475/Poznati-u-svetu-crkve|title=Poznati u svetu crkve|agency=Blic|date=10 January 2014|accessdate=2 February 2015}}
During early 1990s she married Vlada Višnjić (1967–1999) and got a son Luka{{Cite news |url=http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/97983/Pismo-Olje-Beckovic |title=Pismo Olje Bećković |language=Serbian |date=19 June 2009 |publisher=Blic }} with him in 1994. Vlada, her husband, died in 1999, at age 32.
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