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Ivana Hadži-Popović
Ivana Hadži-Popović ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Ивана Хаџи-Поповић, born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and translator. Biography Ivana Hadži-Popović studied at the Department of Romance Studies of Belgrade's Faculty of Philology and graduated with magister degree. She works as literary editor and translator at the Albatros publishing house in Belgrade. Among her numerous translations are works of French and Italian writers such as Catherine Clément, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Catherine Cusset, Anaïs Nin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Pierre Assouline, Dino Buzzati, Benoît Duteurtre, Pierre Michon, Henry de Montherlant, Antonio Tabucchi, Michel Tournier and Maryam Madjidi. The long-term translation and editorial activity is a noteworthy contribution to the Franco-Serbian cultural exchange. Hadži-Popović's translation of the French-language memories, aphorisms and letters of Queen Natalie is a particularly interesting publication on the cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian language, Serbian, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet. Karadžić based his alphabet on the previous Slavonic-Serbian script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters representing iotified vowels, introducing from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology. During the same period, linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted the Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets for Serbian-Croatian have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin Digraph (orthography), digraph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Michon
Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945, Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel, ''Small lives'' (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for ''Small lives'' and for ''The Origin of the World'' (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Works * 1984: ''Small Lives'' (''Vies minuscules''). **Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2008. * 1988: ''Life of Joseph Roulin'' (''Vie de Joseph Roulin'').'' **Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in ''Masters and Servants'', 1997. * 1997: ''L'empereur d'Occident''. * 1990: ''Masters and Servants'' (''Maîtres et serviteurs''). **Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House, 1997. * 1991: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vršac
Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while the city administrative area had 52,026 inhabitants. It is located in the geographical region of Banat. Name The name ''Vršac'' is of Serbian language, Serbian origin, ultimately deriving from Proto-Slavic wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/vьrxъ, *vьrxъ, meaning "summit" In Serbian, the city is known as Вршац or ''Vršac'', in Romanian language, Romanian as ''Vârșeț'', in Hungarian language, Hungarian as ''Versec'' or ''Versecz'', in German language, German as ''Werschetz'', and in Turkish language, Turkish as ''Virşac'' or ''Verşe''. History There are traces of human settlement from the paleolithic, Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods. Remains from two types of Neolithic cultures have been discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidora Sekulić Award
The Isidora Sekulić Award ( sr, Nagrada Isidora Sekulić, italics=yes, sr-cyr, Награда Исидора Секулић) is a Serbian, and former Yugoslav, literary prize established by the Belgrade municipality of Savski venac in 1967 and awarded annually since 1968 in honor of the writer and Belgrade native Isidora Sekulić. The award honors writers for the best work of modern Serbian literature Serbian literature ( sr-Cyrl, Српска књижевност), refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other lands where Serbs reside. The history of Serbian literature begins with the independent works from the Nema ... of the previous year. In the first decade of its history, several authors were awarded annually. Since 1979, only one author has received the award each year. A total of 71 authors (60 male and 11 female) have received the award since its inception. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vračar
Vračar ( sr-Cyrl, Врачар, ) is an affluent urban area and municipality of the city of Belgrade known as the location of many embassies and museums. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has a population of 56,333 inhabitants. With an area of only 291 hectares, it is the smallest of all Belgrade's (and Serbian) municipalities, but also the most densely populated. Vračar is one of the three municipalities that constitute the very center area of Belgrade, together with Savski Venac and Stari Grad. It is an affluent municipality, having one of the most expensive real estate prices within Belgrade, and has the highest proportion of university educated inhabitants compared to all other Serbian municipalities. One of the most famous landmarks in Belgrade, the Saint Sava Temple is located in Vračar. Vračar borders five other Belgrade municipalities: Voždovac to the south, Zvezdara to the east, Palilula to the northeast, Stari Grad to the north and Savski Vena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Francophone Press Union
The International Francophone Press Union (french: Union internationale de la presse francophone, UPF) is a Francophone association of journalists. Founded in 1950, it is the world's oldest Francophone organisation, and has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries. History The association was founded in 1950 in Limoges, France on the initiative of Canadian journalist Émile-Dostaler O'Leary, who served as the organisation's first president. It formally changed its name from ''Union internationale des journalistes et de la presse de langue français'' ( en, International Union of French-language Journalists and Press) to ''Union internationale de la presse francophone'' on October 24, 2001, at its 33rd meeting in Beirut, Lebanon. Activities The UPF's aim is to advance cooperation between the Francophone media of the world. Although initially a venue for French-speaking journalists to convene, over time the UPF became a professional union. It is an international nongovernmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Of Serbia
Natalija Obrenović ( sr-Cyrl, Наталија Обреновић; 15 May 1859 – 8 May 1941), née Keshko ( ro, Natalia Cheșcu; russian: Наталья Кешко), known as Natalie of Serbia, was the Princess of Serbia from 1875 to 1882 and then Queen of Serbia from 1882 to 1889 as the wife of Milan I of Serbia. Of ethnic Romanian origin, she was the daughter of Russian colonel Petre Keşco and Romanian noblewoman Princess Pulcheria Sturdza. A celebrated beauty during her youth, she was later regarded as one of the most beautiful queens in Europe. Early life and family She was born in 1859 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (now Italy), as the first child of Russian colonel Petre Keșco (1830–1865) of Bessarabia, member of the collateral branch of Wassilko von Serecki family and Moldavian Princess Pulcheria Sturdza (1831–1874). Her father was the son of Ioan Keșco, a Marshal of Nobility of Bessarabia, and Romanian noblewoman Natalia Balș, daughter of Iordache Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphorisms
An aphorism (from Ancient Greek, Greek ἀφορισμός: ''aphorismos'', denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation. The concept is generally distinct from those of an adage, brocard (law), brocard, chiasmus, epigram, maxim (legal maxim, legal or maxim (philosophy), philosophical), principle, proverb, and saying; although some of these concepts may be construed as types of aphorism. Often, aphorisms are distinguished from other short sayings by the need for interpretation to make sense of them. In ''A Theory of the Aphorism'', Andrew Hui defined an aphorism as "a short saying that requires interpretation." History The word was first used in the ''s:Aphorisms, Aphorisms'' of Hippocrates, a long series of propositions concerning the symptoms and diagnosis of disease and the art of healing and medicin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as forgetfulness or amnesia. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory. This can be related to the neuron. The sensory processor allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli and attended to various levels of focus and intent. Working memory serves as an encoding and retrieval processor. Information in the form of stimuli is encoded in accordance with explicit or implicit functions by the working memory processor. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Madjidi
Maryam Madjidi is a Iranians in France, French-Iranian writer. She was born in Tehran in 1980, and moved with her family to France in 1986. Her parents were communists and had been forced into exile following the Iranian revolution. She studied literature at Sorbonne University and taught French in both Beijing and Istanbul. Her debut novel ''Marx et la poupée (Marx and the doll)'' was published in 2017 to widespread acclaim, receiving the prix Goncourt for first novel as well as the Ouest-France Etonnants Voyageurs novel prize. She is currently working on her second novel. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Madjidi, Maryam category:French novelists 1980 births Living people Iranian emigrants to France People from Tehran Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in France Paris-Sorbonne University alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
