Pero Novaković was born in 1933 in Čilipi, in Konavle. He comes from a left-wing family who were landowners before the Second World War. During the Second World War, members of his family took the side of the anti-fascist movement. After the War, the family's property was largely nationalised. In the time of Yugoslavia Pero Novaković worked as one of the directors of JAT Airways, and he had connections with people from various parts of the former Yugoslavia and the world. In the first multiparty elections he was a candidate on the list of the Party of Democratic Change. At the beginning of the war in the 1990s he was in Čilipi. He fled and took shelter in Cavtat, which was for some time under the occupation of the JNA [Yugoslav National Army]. He was one of the locals who stood up against the JNA and who managed to persuade them to hand over the exhibits found in the local museum in Čilipi. The exhibits were then moved to Cavtat, where they remained until the liberation of Konavle in October 1992. His son was imprisoned in the camp in Morinj, and his family house in Čilipi completely burnt down. Today he is retired and he lives in his restored house in Čilipi.