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Slobodan "Danko" Popović (
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: Слободан Данко Поповић; 19 August 1928 – 7 August 2009) was a
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n writer, playwright and screenwriter. Popović was born in
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. He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School, where he spent the biggest part of life and where he started his literary work.
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, however, also returned regularly to his home town and
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. He wrote several novels, collections of short stories and scenarios for TV, Film and radio dramas. Vladan Matijević was the 2015 recipient of the Danko Popović Award.


Work (selection)

Prose (selection) * ''Svečanosti'', (Celebrities), Nolit, Belgrade 1962. * '' Kukurek i
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'', Slovo ljubve, Belgrade 1976. * ''
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i'', Nolit, Belgrade 1969. * '' Oficiri'', Minerva,
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1979. * ''
Knjiga o Milutinu ''The Book About Milutin'' (Serbian: ''Knjiga o Milutinu'', Књига о Милутину) is a novel by the Serbian writer Danko Popović. The novel is about Milutin, a Serbian peasant and former soldier who tells his story from jail after Worl ...
'', Publishing series '' Biblioteka Književne novine'', Belgrade 1985. * '' Konak u Kragujevcu'', Publishing series '' Biblioteka Književne novine'', Belgrade 1988, . * '' Blood Blossoms of
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: Chronicle About the Serbian
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'', edited by Sofija Škorić, translated by Ralph Bogert, Serbian Literary Company,
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1997, . * ''Četiri vetra - pisma prijatelju u Torontu'', Prometej and Jefimija, Novi Sad and Kragujevac 2004, . * '' The Book About Milutin'', translated by Svetlana Milošević, Knjiga komerc, Belgrade 2018, . Filmography (selection) * ''Pukovnikovica'' (Colonel's Wife), screenplay, Studio Film danas 1972. * '' Josef Šulc'' (Joseph Schultz; Leading Actor:
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),
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, Zastava Film 1973.Berlinale 1973
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, retrieved 2019-05-12. * '' Karađorđeva smrt'', TVB 1984.


References

1928 births 2009 deaths People from Aranđelovac University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni Serbian dramatists and playwrights Serbian male screenwriters 20th-century dramatists and playwrights Burials at Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches 20th-century Serbian screenwriters {{Serbia-writer-stub