Antonije Đurić ( sr-cyr, Антоније Ђурић; 21 January 1929 – 15 August 2020) was a Serbian journalist, author, historian and publicist.
Biography
He finished high school in Užice at the
Užice Gymnasium. For writing against the Communist regime, he was imprisoned for seven years in the
Sremska Mitrovica Prison at the same time as
Stevan Moljević
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, who died in prison, Đuro Đurović, Vojin Andrić,
Kosta Kumanudi,
Dragić Joksimović, who also died in prison, Fr. Sava Banković and
Borislav Pekić
Borislav Pekić ( sr-Cyrl, Борислав Пекић, ; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian writer and political activist.
He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From ...
.
After his release from prison, he spent most of his working life working as a journalist for ''Ekspres politika''.
Based on his
cult
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drama ''Solunci govore'', a television film of the same name was made in 1990, and he was the screenwriter of the film. He was a member of the
Association of Writers of Serbia. He had a regular monthly column in the newspaper ''Srbija'' from Canada and worked as a contributor of ''Srpske novine'' from
Chicago
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.
Antonije Đurić lived and worked in Čačak, where he died on August 15, 2020.
Published books
* ''Solunci govore'' (1982)
* ''Kraj morave dolina nade'' (1983)
* ''Za čast otadžbine'' (1985)
* ''Žene-Solunci govore'' (1987)
* ''Obaveštajac kaplar Miloje'' (1990)
* ''Po zapovesti Srbije'' (1994)
* ''Ravnogorci govore'' (1996)
* ''Crvena kuga trilogy'' (2016)
* ''Juriš u porobljenu otadžbinu'' (2016)
* ''Toplički ustanak'' (2017)
References
External links
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1929 births
2020 deaths
People from Sjenica
Serbian journalists
Serbian non-fiction writers
Serbian anti-communists
Serbian male non-fiction writers
Yugoslav dissidents
Recipients of the Order of St. Sava
20th-century Serbian historians
21st-century Serbian historians