Milisav Savić
(Serbian Cyrillic: Милисав Савић; born 15 April 1945) is a Serbian writer and novelist.
Early life
He attended elementary school in Raška and high school in
Novi Pazar
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. Later, he graduated from
University of Belgrade
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Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...
, where he majored in Yugoslav and world literature in 1969. He attained his M. A. and PhD. from the same university, the latter with the dissertation "Memoir and Autobiographical Prose about Serb-Turkish Wars 1876–78".
Career
Savić was the first editor in chief of the literary periodical "
Knjizevna rec" (Literary Word), 1972/1977. In 1980, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the leading literary newspapers "Književne novine" ("Literary Gazette"). In 1983 he became the main editor in the largest publishing house in
Serbia
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Prosveta" ("Education"). In 2005/2008 he worked in
Rome
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in The Embassy of Serbia as minister adviser.
After his return from Rome, he worked as a professor of literature at the State University of Novi Pazar.
In 1977 and 1978, he taught Serbo-Croatian at
London University
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, later at SUNY,
Albany (1985/87), the University of
Florence
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Florence ...
(1990/92 and the University of
Lodz,
Poland
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(1999/2000).
Savić is the editor and translator of several anthologies of foreign literature into Serbian (American and Italian) and the writer of three collections of essays.
Works
Short-stories collections
* "The Bulgarian Shack" (1969)
* "Young Men from Raška" (1977)
* "Uncle about Town" (1977, awarded with 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 ...
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* "30 plus 18" (2005)
* "Love letters and other lessons" (2012)
Novels
* "The Loves of Andrija Kurandić" (1972)
* "The Poplar on the Terrace" (1985)
* "The Urn of the Guerilla Commander" (1990)
* Bread and Fear" (1991, "NIN award"
)
* "The Scars of Silence" (1997)
* "The Prince and Serbian Writer", included in the book "Roman Diary, Stories and One Novel" (2008)
* "Cvarcic" (2010), "La sans pareille" (2015
Mesa Selimovic award,
2015 award "Borina nagrada"
)
* "The valley of Serbian kings" (2015).
References
External links
Interview in Serbian newspaper "Politika"Interview for newspaper b92Interview
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1945 births
Serbian writers
Living people