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Andrić Prize
The Andrić Prize () is a Serbian and formerly Yugoslav annual literary award for short stories and short story collections written in Serbian, granted by the ''Zadužbina Ive Andrića'' ("Ivo Andrić Foundation") since 1975. History The prize was founded by the Ivo Andrić Foundation in accordance with the last will of Yugoslav Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić. The formal foundation took place on 12 March 1976, and the rules for granting the prize were amended in 2005, 2006, 2019 and 2020. Three jurors decide on the winner. The jurors themselves are elected by a board of literary authors, critics and historians A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ... to a mandate of 3 years. The prize consists of a diploma and a sum of money. It is given to the winner at a ceremony held ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, Myth, mythic tales, Folklore genre, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella, novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story remains problematic. A classic definition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ćamil Sijarić
Ćamil Sijarić (18 December 1913 – 6 December 1989) was a Montenegrin novelist and short story writer. He enrolled in law school in 1936 and earned his degree four years later. Sijarić died in a car crash at the age of 75. His literally work introduced region of Sandžak and its rural Bosniak population into Montenegrin literature. Life He was born in Šipovice, near Bijelo Polje, in the Kingdom of Montenegro, to Muslim parents. He was of Albanian origin on his mother's side, and he considered Albanian to be native to him. Both of his parents died while he was a child. He was raised thereafter by his aunts and uncles. Sijarić enrolled in the University of Belgrade's Law School and earned his degree in 1940. He was both a member of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academy of Arts and Sciencies of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to Serbo-Croatian, he spoke Albanian, Arabic, French and Russian. During the Second World War, Sijarić worked as a clerk in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Gatalica
Aleksandar Gatalica ( sr-cyr, Александар Гаталица; born 1964) is a Serbian writer, critic and translator, best known for his novel ''The Great War'', for which he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year. His works has been translated in more than ten languages. Biography Gatalica was born in 1964 in Belgrade, where he graduated world literature with Old Greek at Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. He worked as editor of the Pages on world literature (''Danas'' daily), editor of Blic knjiga publishing company, editor of Serbian PEN Centre editions, art director of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre and first president of National Library of Serbia Foundation. Gatalica is also noted as editor of several anthologies in Serbian and other languages. A noted translator, Gatalica translated works of authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and pioneerly translatated great part of ancient poets, such as: Sappho, Mimnermus, Solon, Archilochus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Josić Višnjić
Miroslav Josić Višnjić (15 December 1946 – 8 September 2015) was a Serbian writer and poet. He won numerous literary prizes, most notably NIN Prize 1990 for his novel ''Odbrana i propast Bodroga u sedam burnih godišnjih doba'' and the Andrić Prize in 1998. He died at the age of 69. Selected works Novels * ''Odbrana i propast Bodroga u sedam burnih godišnjih doba'' * ''Pristup u počinak'' * ''Roman bez romana'' * ''Svetovno trojstvo'' * ''Roman o smrti galerije'' Short stories collections * ''Kvartet'' * ''Dvanaest godova'' Poems * ''Azbuka smeha'' Essays * ''Azbučnik prideva u srpskoj prozi 20. veka'' Notes External links"Reči i deca", Skica za portret Miroslava Josića Višnjića Danas ''Danas'' (, Serbo-Croatian for "today") is a United Group-owned daily newspaper of record published in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a left-oriented media, promoting social-democracy and European Union integration. It is a vocal media supporter of Ser ..., 9–10 April 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavle Ugrinov
Pavle Ugrinov (real name Vasilije Popović; 15 April 1926 – 23 June 2007) was a Serbian writer, playwright, director and academic. Biography He attended primary school in various places in Vojvodina and finished high school in Petrograd, today's Zrenjanin. He enrolled at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in 1946. After two years of study, he enrolled at the newly established Academy of Theater and Film in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1952 from the Department of Directing in the class of professor Dr. Hugo Klein. After graduating, he worked for a while in theatre directing and theory. He was one of the founders of the chamber stage of Atelje 212 in Belgrade. With his staging of the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, the stage of that theatre was ceremoniously opened. He also worked as the editor of the drama and serial program of Radio Television of Serbia in Belgrade. He entered the literary life in 1955 with the poem ''Bačka zapevka'', for which, together wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vida Ognjenović
Vida Ognjenović ( sr-cyr, Вида Огњеновић, ; born 14 August 1941) is a Serbian theater director, playwright, writer, drama professor and diplomat. Biography Ognjenović completed primary education in the town of Vrbas, before going to Sremski Karlovci for gymnasium studies and later got degrees in world literature at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and directing at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts. In 1989, she was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party, the first opposition party in Serbia. She was appointed Ambassador to Norway representing Serbia and Montenegro from 2001 until 2006. She served as the ambassador of Serbia to Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ... from 2007 until 2013. Her drama "Jegor's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Živojin Pavlović
Živojin "Žika" Pavlović (15 April 1933 – 29 November 1998) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film director, writer, painter and professor. In his films and novels, Pavlović depicted the cruel reality of small, poor and abandoned people living in the corners of society. He was one of the major figures of the Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s, a movement which portrayed the darker side of life rather than the shiny facades of communist Yugoslavia. Biography Pavlović was born in Šabac in 1933. When he was 19, he started writing about film and art for Belgrade newspapers. He graduated in painting at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, and directed his first professional film, ''Žive Vode'' (''Living Water'') in 1961. The film received a special jury award at the Pula Film Festival. He died in Belgrade. Pavlović received numerous awards, including the Andrić Prize, two NIN Prizes for his novels, Isidora Sekulić Award, one Silver Bear of the Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milica Mićić Dimovska
Milica Mićić Dimovska(1947–2013) was a Serbian writer. She has written numerous novels and collections of short stories and won a number of awards. Her works have been translated into English, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, and Swedish. Personal life While Dimovska spent most of her life in Novi Sad, she studied literature in Belgrade, at the University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, 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 me .... Her first publications came in the 1970s. While in Belgrade, she became very closely connected with a group of writers whose style was considered “new style fiction” (''proza novog stila'') or “hard-boiled fiction” (''stvarnosna proza''). This group focused their works on the people in the “social margin”, often women, yet Mićić Dimovska was almo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Radulović
Jovan Radulović ( sr-cyr, Јован Радуловић; 29 September 1951 – 7 March 2018) was a Serbian writer and former director of the Belgrade City Library. Radulović's writing primarily deals with life and history of Serbs of Croatia. Several works authored by Radulović have been turned into films by Zdravko Šotra. He was awarded the Andrić Prize The Andrić Prize () is a Serbian and formerly Yugoslav annual literary award for short stories and short story collections written in Serbian, granted by the ''Zadužbina Ive Andrića'' ("Ivo Andrić Foundation") since 1975. History The prize ... in 1988 for his short story collection ''Dalje od oltara''. Works *''Ilinštak'', short story collection *''Golubnjača'', short story collection *''Dalje od oltara'', short story collection *''Idealan plac'', short story collection *''Mama vrana, tata vrana i deca vrane'', short story collection *''Vučari Donje i Gornje Polače'', TV drama *''Braća po materi'', novel * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip David
Filip David ( sr-cyr, Филип Давид; 4 July 1940 – 14 April 2025) was a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 1987, he was awarded the Andrić Prize for his short story collection ''Princ Vatre'', and in 2015 he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel ''Kuća sećanja i zaborava'' ("The House of Remembering and Forgetting"). Life and career David was born on 4 July 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 Kragujevac massacre committed by occupation forces during the World War II in Yugoslavia. He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts. He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade. In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radoslav Bratić
Radoslav Bratić (28 June 1948 in Brestice, near Bileća, Bosnia-Herzegovina – 2 June 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian writer, playwright and editor. He was also a corresponding member Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska. Biography Radoslav Bratić finished primary school in Korita (near Bileća) and in Bileća, high school in Trebinje, and studied Yugoslav and world literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He was the editor of the student magazine ''Znak'', the magazine ''Književnost'', the newspaper ''Književna reč'', and the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Relasion''. He worked as a secretary and vice-president of the Association of Writers of Serbia, then as an editor in the publishing house "BIGZ", where he edited a dozen libraries. Among other books, he edited the collected works Slobodan Jovanović, Danilo Kiš, a set of books Borislav Pekić, as well as the edition "New Books of Domestic Writers". He started the famous libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidosav Stevanović
Vidosav Stevanović ( sr-cyr, Видосав Стевановић; born 27 June 1942) is a Serbian novelist, writer, poet, playwright, and publicist. He has written over thirty literary works, including a political biography of Slobodan Milošević. Stevanović was a writer for European newspapers such as ''Le Monde'', ''Liberation'', ''El País'' and ''Expressen''. During the 1990s, Stevanović was among the intellectuals who resisted Milošević's policies and consolidation of power. This resulted in Stevanović living in exile. He lived in Paris but briefly returned to his home country in 1996. In 2004 he left Paris and went to Sarajevo. In 2007 he returned to Kragujevac. Works Stevanović published his first and only collection of poems, ''Trublje'' in 1967, in Belgrade. His second book was a collection of stories, ''The Scum of Death'', published in 1969. Two years later he brought out his first novel, ''Nišći'', followed two years later by ''Konstantin Gorča''. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |