Svetozar Koljević ( sr-cyr, Светозар Кољевић; 9 September 1930 – 29 May 2016)
was a Serbian author, historian, translator, and professor, member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

and

Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska The Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska ( sr, Академија наука и умјетности Републике Српске, АНУРС, Bosnian and Croatian ''Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske'', ANURS) is ...

. He was the elder brother of

Nikola Koljević Nikola Koljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Кољевић; 9 June 1936 – 25 January 1997) was a Serbian politician, university professor, translator and an essayist, one of the foremost Yugoslavian Shakespeare scholars. In 2016, he was pos ...

. His studies focused on South Slavic epic poetry.

Work

*''The Epic in the Making'' (Oxford, 1980),

References

* 1930 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Yugoslav historians People from Banja Luka Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian translators Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska 20th-century translators {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub