Jovan Nikolaidis was born on 11 July 1950. in Ulcinj. He worked in Sarajevo in newspapers Oslobodjenje from 1974 to beginning of 1990's when he moves to Ulcinj, his home town. From then to now he is continually attempting to initiate cultural dialogue between Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania. He founds multicultural ogranizations and opens publishing house Plima which is an initiator of new wave of Montenegrin literature (Andrej Nikolaidis, Ognjen Spahic, Aleksandar Becanovic, Dragana Tripkovic and others). He opened bilingual (Montenegrin and Albanian language) magazine Plima-Batica; he is founder and publisher of first magazine on Albanian language in Montenegro, titled Kronika.
He wrote following books: Velaskez (short novel), Valdinos 33 (novel), Ulcinj letters (chronicle), Montenegrin guilt (political commentary), Poems with view of her (poems), Diary about nothingness (novel), Ulcinj nomadism (in work), etc...
Jovan Nikolaidis is a writer whose style is rarely specific and it floats between traditional epics and modern fragments. Lands and people, divided between historic tragedy of space and their desires for overcoming of their bad position which leaves them at mercy of political and cultural fatalities. In his works, Montenegrin history of national awakening along with still existing fragments of tribal customs, is shown as spiders net of events - both real and fictional - where characters leave their own signs of existence that can not be avoided as they are being caught by powers that be, and they simply can not escape.
In his writings, Jovan Nikolaidis masterly articulates impulses and references to contemporary struggle of Montenegrins for their independence. However, political references are not only politically active literature. When it comes to his writings, we are talking about historical decor that is necessary in order to understand complex structure of literary characters who reside "at the end of the world", Balkan Mediterranean combined with mythical Valdinos, his geopoetics, as a start and end of life story of lonely character and fighter against all forms of anti-liberty.