Slobodan Vuksanović ( sr-cyr, Слободан Вуксановић, born in 1965 in

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) is a poet, essayist, translator and former

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n politician, who served as Minister of Education and Sport in the

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from 2004 to 2007.

Biography

He was appointed as a minister on October 19, 2004, after an unsuccessful attempt to become mayor of

. He replaced Ljiljana Čolić, who was forced to leave after she made several controversial decisions. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature from the

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, and obtained his PhD at the

University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; hu, Újvidéki Egyetem) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of ...

. He has been the editor of several magazines, a teacher in a secondary school, and has written 12 books. He was the president of the People's Democratic Party, which integrated into the

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in 2004. Vuksanović decided to leave DSS in April 2013 stating that his membership became pointless, as he had no party assignment being a passive member for five years.Slobodan Vuksanović napustio DSS
''B92'', 23 April 2013 He received his Ph.D. at the European University in Belgrade in the field of International relations, in 2009. Professor of Methodology of literature and Literature for children at the State University of Novi Pazar from 2009 to 2014. He has published 25 books - essays, manuals, textbooks, monodramas, novels and poems. Vuksanovic quit his job at the State University of Novi Pazar in December 2013 and moved to private school in Belgrade - MEF - ( management, economics, finance, mathematics, computer science, communication studies, sociology), where is the head of the Department of Social Sciences and teaches Sociology and Communication. Amended to the book Outstanding intellectuals 2010 Biographical Institute, University of Cambridge. Vuksanović speaks English.

Selected bibliography

With a translator Irena Kostic, translated S - John Updike (1989) and Eternal grief - and Book about gods and angels, Charles Simic (1989). *Halley's comet over Kosovo (1990), Poems, Hypnos, Belgrade *Essay about angels (1992), Poems, Rad Belgrade *Journey Helen Erdeljan (1993), Poems, Student Cultural Center, Belgrade *Hand made by fire (1994), Poems, work, Belgrade *Now think of the head (1995), second edition (1997) and third (2000), this monodrama premiered on October 3, 1996. In the theater Radovic, BIGZ, Belgrade *Unspoken poems (1993), Essays, Kids newspapers, Gornji Milanovac *Bicycle writings of (1993), Essays, Cultural Center, S. Palanka *Songs from the border (1995), Essays, Prosveta, Belgrade *Poetics homeland (1998), Essays, Culture, Cacak *Far from the sensational (2000), Essays, Blic, Belgrade *Fox on the asphalt (2000), Novel, Euro, Belgrade *Suppressed Literature (2003), Essays, The Association of Writers of Serbia *Poem of Kosovo (1991), bilingual anthology of poetry *Political Communication (2009), Essays, Prosveta, Belgrade *God forbid, God forbid (2009), Monodrama-monodramas, bilingual, Serbian-English edition, Prosveta, Belgrade *Notes on Reading Materials I (2009), Essays The Book of Commerce, Belgrade *Notes on Reading Materials II (2009), Essays The Book of Commerce, Belgrade *Little People (review of literature for children) (2010), Essays, Book Commerce, Belgrade *56 examples, manual processing and methodological lessons, Essays (2011), The Book of Commerce, Belgrade *Methodical reminder - Manual for students and teachers (2012), The Book of Commerce, Belgrade *Small letters large Anji (2012), Laguna, Beograd *General characteristics of children's literature (2012), a manual for students and teachers, Sprint, Belgrade *Methodical practice (2012), a manual for students and teachers, Sprint, Belgrade *Small letters to my daughter Anya (2013), second edition, Laguna, Beograd *Letters to my daughter Anya (2013), published in English, Laguna, Beograd *The secret of a courtyard (2014) Poems for teenagers, Čigoja, Belgrade *Pavlovic shop (2015) Stories, Čigoja, Belgrade

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vuksanovic, Slobodan 1965 births Living people Writers from Belgrade Serbian novelists University of Novi Sad alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni People's Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Democratic Party of Serbia politicians Government ministers of Serbia Politicians from Belgrade Education ministers of Serbia