Žaneta Đukić-Perišić (

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: Жанета Ђукић-Перишић; born 1956 in

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) is a

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n literary scholar and

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Biography

Žaneta Đukić-Perišić began studying

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and

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at the Faculty of Philology of the

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, graduated with

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, and continued

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and Belgrade again. She completed her

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with theses on

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and the

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of the

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''Zanos i stradanje Tome Galusa'' (Fervor and Suffering of Toma Galus) by

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1961. His writ ...

. Đukić-Perišić obtained her doctorate as

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at the Faculty of Philosophy of the

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in 2011. She received the

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2012 for one of her numerous studies on life and work of

, which is the main topic in almost all of her

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. She has been a member of the ''Ivo Andrić Foundation'' since 1983 and was appointed as its

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in 2016. She was married to

Miodrag Perišić Miodrag Perišić ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг Перишић; 31 July 1948 – 6 May 2003) was a Serbian writer, literary critic and politician. He was one of the founders and a vice-president of the Serbian modern-day Democratic Party, the first ...

. Žaneta Đukić-Perišić can be seen in the TV documentary series ''Biti čovek: Ivo Andrić'' (Being Human: Ivo Andrić; 2015).

Awards

, 2012

Bibliography (selection)

*''Kavaljer svetog duha: o jednom nedovršenom romanu Ive Andrića'' (Kavaljer svetog duha: about an unfinished novel by Ivo Andrić), Ivo Andrić Foundation, Belgrade 1992, . *''Jewish Portraits in the Works of Ivo Andrić'' (edited by Sofija Škorić), Serbian Literary Company,

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2005, . * ''Pisac i priča : stvaralačka biografija Ive Andrića'' (Writer and story: creative

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of Ivo Andrić), Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad 2012, . * ''Na početku svih staza : Andrić i Višegrad'' (At the beginning of all the trails: Andrić and

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, Vukotić media, Belgrade 2015, .COBISS

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References

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