Bosiljka Pušić ( sr-Cyrl, Босиљка Пушић; born May 2, 1936) is a Montenegrin writer and poet. Bosiljka was born in
Ćuprija
Ćuprija (Serbian Cyrillic: Ћуприја, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 19,380, while the municipality has 30,645 inhabitants.
History
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Serbia
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. In early 1937 her family moved to
Jagodina )
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, where her father opened an independent watch-making shop and she stayed there until her high school graduation. Bosiljka acquired a degree in literature at the Faculty of Arts in
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
. Before retiring, she worked as a high school teacher in
Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi ( cyrl, Херцег Нови, ) is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the Western entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 in ...
, where she resides to the present day. She is also a painter. She is a mother of prominent musician Antonije Pušić, better known as
Rambo Amadeus
Antonije Pušić (; born 14 June 1963), known professionally as Rambo Amadeus () is a Montenegrin author. A self-titled "musician, poet, and media manipulator", he is a noted artist across the countries of former Yugoslavia.
His songs combine ...
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She has fan FB paige Bosiljka Pušic-Bašta of papira
Awards and nominations
*First place for the story Kavez (Prosvetni pregled, Belgrade, 1973).
*Zmajeva počasna nagrada (2003).
*"Živojin Pavlović" 2004 humoristic stories award for her book "Kako preživeti brak".
*Second place for the story "Kralj koji je pojeo sam sebe" (Novi put, 2005).
*Trilogy Naranče pod šlemom was nominated for "Miroslavljevo jevanđelje" in 2009.
*Novel Knjiga o Vojinu was nominated for "Zlatno pero" award in 2009.
Publications
Children's books
*Hercegnovske čarolije (Osmjeh, Podgorica, 2000).
*Koga boli uvo kako ja rastem (Osmjeh, Podgorica, 2000).
*Ružičasti delfin (Bookland, Belgrade, 2001).
*Žabilijada (Portal, Belgrade, 2003).
*Doživljaji magarčića Magića (Portal, Belgrade, 2004).
*Kobajagična putovanja (Bookland, Belgrade, 2006).
*Plavojko (Bookland, Belgrade, 2000).
*Ko te šiša ("Grigorije Dijak", Podgorica, 2010).
*Kralj koji je pojeo i sebe (Bookland, Belgrade, 2012).
Poetry
*Krila iste ptice (1970).
*Privid igre (1972).
*Pelin u reveru (1976).
*Rukom prema snu (1980).
*Druga voda (1980).
*Dobošari na trgu (1985).
*Svođenje reči (1989).
*Pepeo i krik (2000).
Story collections
*Kavez (1981).
*Otapanje (1994).
*Izlet u Žanjice (2000).
Novels
*Otvaranje lutke (1985).
*Kako preživeti brak (2002, 2003).
*Naranča i nož (2002).
*Narančin cvat (2004).
*Knjiga o Vojinu (2008).
*Naranče pod šlemom - trilogija (2008).
*Stimadur (2011).
*Ispod žižule (2012).
*Tondo (2013).
*”Balada o Itane” (2016)
*”Eva”(2017)
*”Daleki akordi”(2020)
References
1936 births
Living people
20th-century novelists
21st-century novelists
20th-century women writers
21st-century women writers
20th-century short story writers
21st-century short story writers
Montenegrin poets
Montenegrin women children's writers
Montenegrin women short story writers
Women novelists
People from Ćuprija
Montenegrin painters
University of Belgrade alumni
Montenegrin educators
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