Dušan Jovanović (1 October 1939 – 1 January 2021) was a Slovene

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, playwright and

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, known for his

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and grotesque satirical theatre. Since 2005 he was also the president of the Prešeren Foundation. Jovanović was born in Belgrade in 1939, just before the outbreak of the

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. After the war he moved to Ljubljana with his father and went on to study

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and French at the

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and also graduated in

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from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In the late 1960s and 1970s he participated in numerous experimental theatre groups and was artistic director at the Mladinsko Theatre between 1978 and 1985. Since 1989 he was also assistant professor at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He was also author of numerous film and TV scripts. Since the late 1990s Jovanović became also an acclaimed columnist and

. In 2008 he received the Rožanc Award for his essay collection ''Svet je drama'' (The World is a Drama).

Published works

Prose

* ''Don Juan na psu ali Zdrav duh v zdravem telesu'', 1969

Plays

* ''Predstave ne bo'', 1963 * ''Norci'', 1968 * ''Znamke, nakar še Emilija'', 1969 * ''Igrajte tumor v glavi in onesnaževanje zraka'', 1971 * ''Življenje podeželskih plejbojev po drugi svetovni vojni ali tuje hočemo, svojega ne damo'', 1972 * ''Žrtve mode bum bum'', 1975 * ''Generacije'', 1977 * ''Vojaška skrivnost'', 1983 * ''Osvoboditev Skopja'', 1977 * ''Karamazovi'', 1980 * ''Viktor ali dan mladosti'', 1989 * ''Jasnovidka ali Dan mrtvih'', 1989 * ''Zid, jezero'', 1989 * ''Antigona'', 1996 * ''Uganka korajže'', 1994 * ''Kdo to poje Sizifa,'' 1997 * ''Karajan C/Klinika Kozarcky/Ekshibicionist'', 1999 * ''Ekshibicionist'', under the pseudonym O. J. Traven, 2001

Essay collections

* ''Paberki'', 1996 * ''Moški, ženska'', 2000 * ''Sobotna knjiga'', 2005 * ''Svet je drama'', 2007

References

External links

* 1939 births 2021 deaths Slovenian theatre directors Slovenian dramatists and playwrights Slovenian essayists University of Ljubljana alumni Slovenian people of Serbian descent Theatre people from Belgrade {{slovenia-writer-stub