Tomislav (Toma) Nikolić, was born in Serbia around 1931. He grew up in Belgrade, where he lived with his wife and children. Toma Nikolić died in Serbia in the late 1990s. He identified himself as a member of the Tamara Romani group and spoke a variant of Gurbet Romani. It is in this dialect that he tells his ‘Tall Story’.

(Translation: Petra Cech)