Ljubomir Simović ( sr-Cyrl, Љубомир Симовић; born 2 December 1935) is a Serbian poet, short story writer, playwright, and scriptwriter of TV dramas and movies. He is a member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

. His works have been translated in more than twenty languages.

Biography

Simović was born in the town of

Užice Užice ( sr-cyr, Ужице, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Zlatibor District in western Serbia. It is located on the banks of the river Đetinja. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 59,747. The C ...

, where he finished Gymnasium and Teacher's school. He graduated at Faculty of Philology(Department of History of Serbian and Yugoslav Literature) at

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. He writes poems, novels, essays, literary criticism, but he is best known for his plays. He wrote 4 plays: Hasanaginica, A Miracle in Sargan ( Serbian: Čudo u Šarganu), Traveling theatre Sopalovic ( Serbian: Putujuće pozorište Šopalović) and The Battle of Kosovo ( Serbian: Boj na Kosovu). His works have been translated into almost all

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and his plays were performed in almost all theatres in

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. Also his plays were performed in

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, Czhez Republic,

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, Switzerland,

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, and

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. In 1996 he published "A chronicle, which is occasionally a novel, or a novel, which is occasionally a chronicle" about his hometown called "Uzice with the Crows" ( Serbian: Užice sa vranama). His selected works have been published in 12 books in 2008.

Works

* ''Slovenske elegije'', (1958) * ''Veseli grobovi'', (1961) * ''Poslednja zemlja'', (1964) * ''Šlemovi'', (1967) * ''Uoči trećih petlova'', (1972) * ''Hasanaga's Wife'', (1974) * ''Miracle in Šargan'', (1975) * ''Subota'', (1976) * ''Vidik na dve vode'', (1980) * ''Um za morem'', (1982) * ''Deset obraćanja Bogorodici Trojeručici hilandarskoj'', (1983) * ''Duplo dno'', (1983) * ''Istočnice'', (1983) * ''Snevnik'' I-II, (1987) * ''Gornji grad'', (1990) * ''Kovanica na Čakovina'', (1990) * ''Duplo dno, eseji o pesnicima'', (1991) * ''Igla i konac'', (1992) * ''Galop na puževima'', (1994) * ''Uzice with the Crows'', (1996) * ''Ljuska od jajeta'', (1998) * ''Snevnik, dnevnik snova'', 1998 * ''Novi galop na puževima'', (1999) * ''Duplo dno, eseji o srpskim pesnicima, o komedijama Sterije i Nušića, i o Životu i priključenijima Dositejevim'', (2001) * ''Čitanje slika, eseji o slikarima i vajarima'', (2006) * ''Kina: čitanje spaljenih knjiga'', (2007) * ''Planeta Dunav'', (2009) * ''Do Oba i Huangpua'', (2016) * ''Žabe u redu pred poktivačnicom'', (2016)

Awards

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 ...

* Sterija Award for Hasanaginica (1975), A Miracle in Sargan (1993) and Traveling theatre Sopalovic (1986) *Honorable doctor of arts,

University of Kragujevac The University of Kragujevac ( sr, Универзитет у Крагујевцу, Univerzitet u Kragujevcu) is a public university in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is the oldest and the largest higher education institution in Šumadija and Western Ser ...

* Dis Award *

Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...

Award *

Vasko Popa Vasile "Vasko" Popa ( sr-Cyrl, Васко Попа; 29 June 1922 – 5 January 1991) was a Serbian poet. Biography Popa was born in the village of Grebenac ( ro, Grebenaț), Vojvodina, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). After finishing hig ...

Award *

Milan Rakić Milan Rakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Ракић; 18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) was a Serbian poet-diplomat and academic. He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rhyme ...

Award *

Desanka Maksimović Desanka Maksimović ( sr-Cyrl, Десанка Максимовић; 16 May 1898 – 11 February 1993) was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal ''Misao'' in 1920, while she was studying at th ...

Award *

Mića Popović Miodrag "Mića" Popović (23 June 1923 – 23 December 1996) was a Serbian painter, experimental filmmaker and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Life and work Mića Popović was born on 12 June 1923 in Loznica. He finished ...

Award * Đorđe Jovanović Award * Branko Miljković Award * Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša Award * Ljubomir Nenadović Award * Zmaj Award *

Jovan Dučić Jovan Dučić ( sr-cyr, Јован Дучић, ; 17 February 1871 – 7 April 1943) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet-diplomat and academic. He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets. Dučić published his first collec ...

Award *October Award *7 July Award *Despot Stefan Lazarević Award

References

External links

* 1935 births Living people Serbian male poets Writers from Užice {{Serbia-poet-stub