Who am I?

Hi, I’m DJAPE. 🙂 That’s my pen name. My full name is Predrag Stanojević, and I’ve been publishing puzzles online, in newspapers, magazines, and books since 2005. For example, my Samurai Sudoku puzzles appear every Sunday in The Washington Post since January 2006!

I’ve lived around the world. Born in Belgrade, Serbia – went to high school in Pennsylvania, USA – worked in Sydney, Australia – traveled South America – moved to live in Cascais, Portugal – now exploring the magnificent island of Madeira – and visited around 50 countries on all continents.

Let me brag a little – I hold a PhD degree in Computer Science. I’ve published several papers on combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics, applied to problems from operations research. However, I don’t work in academia. Actually, right now, I only publish books. And I enjoy doing it!

The greatest love of my life is a dog called Cash. His name comes from the movie Tango and Cash. Where I go – he goes. We drove across Europe in the middle of the pandemic to move to Portugal. Then, we embarked on a cargo ship for a 48 hour trip to Madeira. You often see him on the covers of my books.

I have many hobbies – dancing tango, sailing, hiking, running half marathons, horseback riding, scuba diving, playing bridge (the card game), doing yoga and sports in general. I almost had an opportunity to play basketball against Kobe Bryant (but I didn’t). I enjoy learning new stuff. Now flirting with astronomy and dancing bachata. Next one – I wanna learn to play the piano.

So… welcome to my website! Hope you’ll find something interesting here! Feel free to contact me. ♡

Enjoy!

Sincerely yours,
DJAPE

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