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Sava Babić
Sava Babić (Cyrillic: Сaвa Бaбић, Palić, January 27, 1934 – Beograd, November 23, 2012), was a Serbian writer, poet, translator and university professor. His life Sava Babić's parents arrived to Vojvodina from Hercegovina. From the autumn of 1941 he studied at a Hungarian school. He finished the high school in Subotica. In 1953 he passed the school-leaving exam, then studied Yugoslav literature at the University of Belgrade. He worked for several publishing houses and cultural institutions. Since 1974 he taught at the universities of Novi Sad, then Belgrade, where in 1993 he founded the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, and worked as its head till 1999, when he retired. In 2007 he received the Golden Cross of Merit of Hungary. Babić is also an honorary citizen of Balatonfüred.

His first translation was a novel of

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The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally through Serbia, feeding into the Danube in its capital, Belgrade. The Sava forms the main northern limit of the Balkan Peninsula, and the southern edge of the Pannonian Plain. The Sava is long, including the Sava Dolinka headwater rising in Zelenci, Slovenia. It is the largest tributary of the Danube by volume of water, and second-largest after the Tisza in terms of catchment area () and length. It drains a significant portion of the Dinaric Alps region, through the major tributaries of Drina, Bosna, Kupa, Una, Vrbas, Lonja, Kolubara, Bosut and Krka. The Sava is one of the longest rivers in Europe and among the longest tributaries of another river. The population in the Sava River basin is estimated at 8,176,000, and is share ...
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