Mihajlo Kažić (in
Serbian Михајло Кажић) (born in
Pristina
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in 1960) is a
Serbian novelist
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. He trained as an engineer, completing a
civil engineering
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degree at the
University of Novi Sad.
In 1985 he was awarded a
Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, and obtained his
M.Sc. and
PhD
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in Engineering from the
University of California in Los Angeles in 1986 and 1988 respectively. He worked as a science researcher and lecturer in
Novi Sad
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(Serbia), Los Angeles,
Corvallis, Oregon and in Paris (France) and
Stuttgart
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(Germany). Kazic has since worked with several construction companies in Germany.
''Emperor of the Galatians'' is his first work to be published in English. The book was originally printed in Germany by
Kiepenheuer (Leipzig) in 1993.
Kazic has written two other books, both of which were published in
Serbian and German. ''Broken Journey'' was published by Prosveta (Belgrade) and by Suhrkamp (Frankfurt) in 1996. ''The Gates of Heaven'' was published by Prosveta (Belgrade) in 1998 and by Suhrkamp (Frankfurt) in 1999.
External links
www.kazic.org Author's website
Serbian novelists
1960 births
Living people
University of Novi Sad alumni
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