Milovan Vitezović (

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: Милован Витезовић; 11 September 1944 – 22 March 2022) was a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter. He wrote poems, novels, essays, prose literature for children, reviews,

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s, movies and TV scripts. He published more than forty books and was represented in over fifty various anthologies. His aphorisms were published in a series of European newspapers, such as the

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'' and Moscow's ''Sunday Times'', and translated into Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Swedish and Italian. Vitezović was one of the few Serbian and Yugoslav

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writers, whose books were banned and even burned in its first edition – the collection of aphorisms ''Srce me je otkucalo''. His satirical texts were often published in the Serbian magazine ''Jež'' (Hedgehog). He is the author of numerous television dramas and series, texts for theatrical performances and film scripts. Vitezović died in March 2022 from COVID-19, during the

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Biography

Vitezović was born in Vitezovići at

Kosjerić Kosjeríć ( sr-cyr, Косјерић, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. The municipality has a population of 10,175 inhabitants and the town itself has 3,723 (2022 census). The municipality's area i ...

on 11 September 1944. He was educated in Tubić, Kosjerić,

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and

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, where he graduated from the

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Faculty of Philology, department of general literature, and

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, department of movies and TV scripts. He was editor of operating in ''Književne novine'' (Literary Newspaper). In the youth magazine ''Susret omladine'' (Youth Meeting), he worked as an editor for literature until 1969, and since then as the editor of the journal ''Čivija'' (Pins). He was the editor of a feature series on RTS from 1977 to 1991, when he became the editor-in-chief of the RTS Arts and Entertainment Program. He was a member of the

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(and its president from 2018) and the Serbian

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and he also spoke and wrote for ''Nacionalna revija'' (National Review), a magazine on the national heritage of Serbia. In 2001, he became an associate professor at the Academy of Arts, Belgrade.

Literary work

As narrator, the flow of actions leads insensibly, spontaneous and full of humor a custom situation, characterized by the developed part of fabulom anecdotal narration, fully describing atmosphere time on any deals. The range of his work is very wide, from historical figures and events, through the fictional characters of our time, to youth readings that represent

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youth, all of us. In his works not only provide insight into the life and world figures, but pictures of different areas, giving a general picture of space and time. His works can be found in school curricula along with German high school textbooks. As guest editor of the Department of Textbooks and Teaching Aids, capital items in the edition edited by the selected pieces of Bogdan Popović,

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, Milan Kašanin and

Stojan Novaković Stojan Novaković ( sr-Cyrl, Стојан Новаковић; 13 November 1842 – 18 February 1915) was a Serbian politician, historian, diplomat, writer, bibliographer, literary critic, literary historian, and translator. He held the post o ...

Selected novels

* Professor Kosta Vujić's Hat *

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* Milena from Knez Mihailova * Sveta ljubav * Hajduk Veljko Petrović * The European Prince Miloš * The Socks of King Peter

Aphorisms

* Man, get angry, * The heart beat me

TV dramas and series

* Where The Yellow Lemon Blooms * Kingdom of Serbia * The Principality of Serbia * Dimitrije Tucović * Vuk Karadžić * Then Lola invents slogans * Student Age * Snohvatice I-II

Film scripts

* Extramarital Planner * Branislav Nušić * Lotus, life, death, Filip Filipovic *

* King Peter of Serbia, co-writer

Awards

He received numerous awards of which the most important: '' Zmaj Children Games'' (1978) ''Great Charter Bazjaške'' in

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in 2005, '' Kočića Award'' (2005) -

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, '' Golden Gašino pen'' (2006), Public Voice Award '' Meša Selimović'' the second place (2000). He was a candidate for the Anthology of the world's best satirist, which was published in the United States 2007. The

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June 2007, went to his honor to receive Zmajev poetic rod and open Zmaj Children Games, the largest festival of children's creativity in Europe. Adaptation of his novel Barking at the Stars won the prestigious award domestic Golden Arena Novi Sad and the award in

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. He was awarded the Sretenje Order by the

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References

External links

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Books by Milovan Vitezović
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vitezovic, Milovan 1944 births 2022 deaths People from Kosjerić Serbian speculative fiction writers Serbian screenwriters Serbian male screenwriters Serbian dramatists and playwrights Serbian male poets Aphorists Recipients of the Order of St. Sava Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska University of Arts in Belgrade alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia