Danilo Kiš
Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Kiš (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Kiš (born Dragićević) from Cetinje, Montenegro. During the Second World War, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954.
Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960
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Hans Fallada, born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in Greifswald, was one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century. His novel, Little Man, What Now? is generally considered his most famous work and is a classic of German literature. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in the Grimm fairy tales: The protagonist of Lucky Hans and a horse named Falada in The Goose Girl.
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August Šenoa
August Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
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He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
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Allen Ginsberg was a groundbreaking American poet and activist best known for his central role in the Beat Generation and for writing the landmark poem Howl. Born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, Ginsberg grew up in a household shaped by both intellectualism and psychological struggle. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a schoolteacher, while his mother, Naomi, suffered from severe mental illness, which deeply affected Ginsberg and later influenced his writing—most notably in his poem Kaddish.
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Borislav Pekić
Borislav Pekić was a Serbian/Montenegrin political activist and writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. A staunch anti-communist throughout his life, he was the founding member of the Democratic Party during the post-Tito era and is considered one of the greats of 20th century literature.
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M. Agueev
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Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
Miroslav Antić
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He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries. As film-maker, he was considered as a part of the "Black Wave" of the Yugoslav film. His films, in particular "Breakfast with the devil" in whom Antic criticized the double morality of the communists at the Tito’s time, were forbidden and destroyed. They were rediscovered and restored in the end of the 90s. Mika also acted in several movies, and was a painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in World War II an -
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C.J. Daugherty
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Peter Brook
Peter Brook is a world-renowned theater director, staging innovative productions of the works of famous playwrights. A native of London, he has been based in France since the 1970s.
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Peter Brook's parents were immigrant scientists from Russia. A precocious child with a distaste for formal education but a love of learning, Brook performed his own four-hour version of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the age of seven. After spending two years in Switzerland recovering from a glandular infection, Brook became one of the youngest undergraduates at Oxford University. At the same time he directed his first play in London, a production of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus. Brook made his directing debut at the Stratford Theatre at the age of 21, with a production of Lov -
David Albahari
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Clarice Lispector
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She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re -
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Osnovao je stranku Srpski pokret obnove 1990. godine i bio najsnažniji i najuticajniji predstavnik opozicije i protivnik režima Slobodana Miloševića u poslednjoj deceniji HH veka, zbog čega je više puta, sa suprugom Danicom, bio zatvaran i izlagan policijskoj torturi, a nekoliko puta i meta atentata kriminalizovanih struktura državne bezbednosti.
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It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h -
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Dragan Velikić
Драган Великић српски је књижевник, двоструки добитник Нинове награде.
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Одрастао је у Пули. Дипломирао је светску књижевност на београдском Филолошком факултету. Од 1994. до 1999. године био је уредник издавачке делатности Радија Б92 „Самиздат Б92“. Писао је колумне за Нин, Време, Данас и Репортер. Двоструки је добитник Нинове награде за роман године.Члан је Српског књижевног друштва. Пише романе, прича, есеје, публикује књиге изабраних интервјуа. Преведен је на петнаест европских језика. -
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Milorad Pavić
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Meša Selimović
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Branislav Nušić
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Svetolik Ranković
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Pošto je završio Bogosloviju, Ranković je otišao u Kijev, gde je upisao Duhovnu akademiju. U Kijevu se upoznao sa ruskom i svetskom literaturom, a najviše na njega utiču dela Tolstoja, Gogolja, Gončarova, Koroljenka i drugih ruskih pisaca. Uticaj Tolstoja i Dostojevskog posebno je primetan u Rankovićevim romanima i odnosi se, pre svega, na izbor teme i junaka, slikanje unutrašnjeg života, humanistički odnos prema čoveku zapalom u bespomoćan položaj, prirodu sporednih lica kao prikrivenih komentara pojedinih ju -
Svetislav Basara
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He is the author of more than forty literary works, including novels, story collections, and essays. For his novel Fuss about Cyclists (Fama o biciklistima) David Albahari said: "After the appearance of The Fuss about Cyclists, one can safely say, the Serbian prose has never been the same, just like Basara has never been the same author, just like I have never been the same reader again."
Basara received the NIN Prize, a prestigious Serbian literary award for the best novel, twice. In 2006 for 'Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti' (The Rise and the Fall of Parkinson's Disease). and in 2020 for the novel Kontraendorfin (Counter-endorphin).
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Borisav Stanković
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Borisav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian writer belonging to the school of realism. His novels and short stories depict the life of people from Southern Serbia. -
Stevan Sremac
Рођен је у Сенти, у Бачкој, 11. новембра 1855. године, у занатлијској породици, где је провео рано детињство. Пошто је остао без родитеља, ујак Јован Ђорђевић, знаменити српски историчар, доводи га 1868. године у Београд на даље школовање. Ту завршава гимназију (1875) и опредељује се за студије историје на Великој школи у Београду и за припадност Либералној странци. Свој радни век провео је као професор у гимназијама у Нишу, Пироту и Београду. Као добровољац учествовао је у ратовима 1876. и 1877 — 1878. године. Умро је 12. августа 1906. године у Сокобањи.
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Почео је да пише релативно касно. У тридесет и трећој години живота, 1888. године, почео је да објављује прозне хронике о личностима и догађајима из српске прошлости, које ће се појавити ка -
Dušan Kovačević
Dušan Kovačević is serbian playwright and director best known for his theater plays and movie scripts. He graduated from a grammar school in Novi Sad, and received a Bachelor's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade in 1973.
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Kovačević's prolific work is well known and popular in Serbia. His comedies have been translated into 17 languages, but his work didn't become available in English until the mid-1990s.
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Dragoslav Mihailović
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Laza Lazarević
Laza K. Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Лаза К. Лазаревић, May 1, 1851-January 10, 1891) was Serbian writer and psychiatrist.
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He was born in Šabac, in a trader family, where he finished primary and lower high school. In 1865 he studied at the Belgrade Higher School and then Law in Belgrade. With help of the country he leaves to Berlin to study medicine. After he finished the studies he became specialist doctor of the General State Hospital in Belgrade. Since then to his death, Lazarević worked on organisation of Serbian medicine as a primarius. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society and SANU, doctor in 1876-1878 wars, major, organiser of the large reserve hospital in Niš during the Serbian-Bulgarian war (1885), vice-colonel, writer and -
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René Guillot
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After studying science, René Guillot moved to Senegal to work as a teacher, spending over 20 years in Africa. Most of the material for his many books comes from this time.
In 1964, he received the "Hans Christian Andersen Award" for the novel, Fodai and the Leopard-Men. Three of his books have been adapted to film, while a live-action version of Little Dog Lost featuring a Welsh Corgi, was made for the "Disneyland" show and was broadcast in 1963. -
Isidora Sekulić
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Veljko Milićević
Veljko M. Milićević was a Serbian writer, translator, publicist and journalist. He is considered "the first authentic narrator of a modern formal stylistic and thematic orientation in Serbian literature at the beginning of the twentieth century."
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Veljko M. Milićević was born in Donji Čaglić in Slavonia on the 14th of January 1886, being the son of a rich merchant who travelled and settled in Lika when Veljko was still a boy. At the age of ten Veljko was placed in one Lika's better grammar schools in Donji Lapac and high schools in Gospić and then in Zagreb. After graduating, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. From Belgrade, he continued his law studies in Geneva, but switched over to the Faculty of Philosophy wh -
Slobodan Vladušić
Slobodan Vladušić (1973, Subotica), pisac i esejista, docent na Odseku za srpsku književnost na Filozofskom fakultetu u Novom Sadu. Bio urednik u časopisu „Reč“, a danas glavni urednik časopisa „Letopis Matice srpske“. Za svoj prvi roman „Forward“ (2009) dobio je nagrade „Borislav Pekić“ i „Zlatni suncokret“, za najbolju književnu kritiku 2004. godine nagradu „Milan Bogdanović“, te 2011. godine nagradu „Isidora Sekulić“ za studiju „Crnjanski, Megalopolis“.
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Anaïs Nin
Writer and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980).
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
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During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American -
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
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McCullers's work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her Southern roots. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51. -
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
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Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact -
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was a groundbreaking American poet and activist best known for his central role in the Beat Generation and for writing the landmark poem Howl. Born in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, Ginsberg grew up in a household shaped by both intellectualism and psychological struggle. His father, Louis Ginsberg, was a published poet and a schoolteacher, while his mother, Naomi, suffered from severe mental illness, which deeply affected Ginsberg and later influenced his writing—most notably in his poem Kaddish.
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Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
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Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
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Kathy Acker
Born of German-Jewish stock, Kathy Acker was brought up by her mother and stepfather (her natural father left her mother before Kathy was born) in a prosperous district of NY. At 18, she left home and worked as a stripper. Her involvement in the sex industry helped to make her a hit on the NY art scene, and she was photographed by the newly fashionable Robert Mapplethorpe. Preferring to be known simply as 'Acker' (the name she took from her first husband Robert, and which she continued to use even after a short-lived second marriage to composer Peter Gordon), she moved to London in the mid-eighties and stayed in Britain for five years.
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Anaïs Nin
Writer and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980).
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Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
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It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h -
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
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His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of -
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.
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She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the pivotal leaders of the American civil rights movement. King was a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial
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Dorothy Parker
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base.
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Dorothy Parker was an American writer, poet and critic best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist.
Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker." Neverth -
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890–14 May 1979) was a British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she mainly resided in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
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She moved to England at the age of 16 years in 1906 and worked unsuccessfully as a chorus girl. In the 1920s, she relocated to Europe, travelled as a Bohemian artist, and took up residence sporadically in Paris. During this period, Rhys, familiar with modern art and literature, lived near poverty and acquired the alcoholism that persisted throughout the rest of her life. Her experie -
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
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John Berger
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text.
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Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss,
Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In E -
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
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When the Irish Times compiled a list of favourite Irish poems in 2000, ten of his poems were in the top fifty, and Kavanagh was rated the second favourite poet behind WB Yeats. The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is presented each year for an unpublished collection of poems. The annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend takes place on the last weekend in September in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland. The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, an interpretative centr -
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
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She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
Meša Selimović
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.
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Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in Greifswald, was one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century. His novel, Little Man, What Now? is generally considered his most famous work and is a classic of German literature. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in the Grimm fairy tales: The protagonist of Lucky Hans and a horse named Falada in The Goose Girl.
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He was the child of a magistrate on his way to becoming a supreme court judge and a mother from a middle-class background, both of whom shared an enthusiasm for music and to a lesser extent, literature. Jenny Williams notes in her biography, More Lives than One that Fallada's father would often read aloud to his children the works authors i -
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi was a novelist famous for his Jaguar Nana series and many others. He wrote for children under the name C.O.D. Ekwensi.
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Gaito Gazdanov
Gaito Gazdanov (Russian: Гайто Газданов; Ossetian: Гæздæнты Бæппийы фырт Гайто) (1903–1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian extraction. He was born in Saint Petersburg but was brought up in Siberia and Ukraine, where his father worked as a forester. He took part in the Russian Civil War on the side of Wrangel's White Army. In 1920 he left Russia and settled in Paris, where he was employed in the Renault factories. Gazdanov's first novel — An Evening with Claire (1930) — won accolades from Maxim Gorky and Vladislav Khodasevich, who noted his indebtedness to Marcel Proust. On the strength of his first short stories, Gazdanov was decried by critics as one of the most gifted writers to begin his career in emigration.
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Albert Camus
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
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Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
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Borislav Pekić
Borislav Pekić was a Serbian/Montenegrin political activist and writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. A staunch anti-communist throughout his life, he was the founding member of the Democratic Party during the post-Tito era and is considered one of the greats of 20th century literature.
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Samuel Beckett
Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's Last Tape in 1959, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1969 for literature.
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Samuel Barclay Beckett, an avant-garde theater director and poet, lived in France for most of his adult life. He used English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black gallows humor.
People regard most influence of Samuel Barclay Beckett of the 20th century. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce strongly influenced him, whom people consider as one modernist. People sometimes consider him as an inspiration to many later first p -
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumont. In many ways her life resembles a fairy tale. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby, and her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. She and her sisters were indulged as a children and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sist
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (芥川 龍之介) was one of the first prewar Japanese writers to achieve a wide foreign readership, partly because of his technical virtuosity, partly because his work seemed to represent imaginative fiction as opposed to the mundane accounts of the I-novelists of the time, partly because of his brilliant joining of traditional material to a modern sensibility, and partly because of film director Kurosawa Akira's masterful adaptation of two of his short stories for the screen.
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Akutagawa was born in the Kyōbashi district Tokyo as the eldest son of a dairy operator named Shinbara Toshizō and his wife Fuku. He was named "Ryūnosuke" ("Dragon Offshoot") because he was born in the Year of the Dragon, in the Month of the Dragon, on the -
Miodrag Bulatović
Miodrag Bulatović was a Serbian novelist and playwright. He began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Đavoli dolaze ("The Devils Are Coming", translated as Stop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His best novel was, however, The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of north-eastern Montenegro. This was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. Bulatović then stopped publishing for a time, to protest interference in his work. His next novel, Hero on a Donkey was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia. In 1975, he won the prestigious NIN Award for novel of the year for People with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life. The Fifth Finger was a se
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Jeremias Gotthelf
He was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. In 1804 the home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Here young Bitzius grew up, receiving his early education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as helping his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern. He was a founding member of the Student Society Zofingia, the second-oldest fraternity in Switzerland (founded in 1819).
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In 1820 he was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. On his father's death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern (1829). Early in 1831 he went as assistant to the ag -
Dobrilo Nenadić
Dobrilo Nenadić je srpski književnik i diplomirani inžinjer agronomije. Rođen je u Vigoštu kod Arilja 23. oktobra 1940.godine. Do sada je objavio romane: "Dorotej", "Kiša", "Vreva", "Poplava", "Statist", "Divlje zvezde", "Roman o Obiliću", "Polarna svetlost", "Despot i žrtva", "Uragan", "Brajan", "Sablja grofa Vronskog", "Pobednici", "Mrzovolja kneza Bizmarka", "Hermelin", "Gvozdeno doba", dramu "Magla", knjigu novela "Ahilije". Po njegovom scenariju snimljen je film Dorotej 1981. godine.
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Nagrade:
* Nagrada Narodne biblioteke Srbije za najčitaniju knjigu
o za roman Dorotej 1978.
o za roman Despot i žrtva 1999.
* Nagrada Meša Selimović za roman Despot i žrtva 1998.
* Prosvetina nagrada za roman Despot i žrtva 1998.
* Nagrada Zlatni bestseler
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Dositej Obradović
Dositej (Dositheus) Dimitrije Obradović was a Serbian author, philosopher and linguist. As one of the most influential proponents of Serbian national and cultural Renaissance, he was advocating ideas of Enlightenment and Rationalism; yet his writings bear clear evidence that he never lost his religion.
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Antonije Isaković
Antonije Isaković was a Serbian writer and member of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. He won the NIN Prize in 1982 for his novel Tren 2. He was one of authors of Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Isaković was one of the 50 members of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts who signed the petition against Slobodan Milošević in October 1999.
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Aleksandar Tišma
Aleksandar Tišma (rođen 16. januara 1924. u Horgošu, preminuo 16. februara 2003. u Novom Sadu) je bio jugoslovenski i srpski pesnik i pisac. U njegovim delima najviše su zastupljene lirske pesme, zatim romani i novele.
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Bio je urednik Letopisa Matice srpske u periodu od 1969. do 1973.
Osnovnu školu i gimnaziju pohađao je u Novom Sadu. Maturirao je 1942. godine. U Budimpešti je studirao (od 1942. do 1943.) ekonomiju pa romanistiku. Stupio je u narodnooslobodilačku borbu decembra 1944. godine. Demobilisan je novembra 1945. godine, nakon čega se zaposlio kao novinar u Novom Sadu, u „Slobodnoj Vojvodini“, a zatim, 1947. godine, u Beogradu, u „Borbi“. Na beogradskom Filozofskom fakultetu 1954 godine diplomirao je anglistiku. Od 1949. je živeo u Nov -
Gaito Gazdanov
Gaito Gazdanov (Russian: Гайто Газданов; Ossetian: Гæздæнты Бæппийы фырт Гайто) (1903–1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian extraction. He was born in Saint Petersburg but was brought up in Siberia and Ukraine, where his father worked as a forester. He took part in the Russian Civil War on the side of Wrangel's White Army. In 1920 he left Russia and settled in Paris, where he was employed in the Renault factories. Gazdanov's first novel — An Evening with Claire (1930) — won accolades from Maxim Gorky and Vladislav Khodasevich, who noted his indebtedness to Marcel Proust. On the strength of his first short stories, Gazdanov was decried by critics as one of the most gifted writers to begin his career in emigration.
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Fred Bodsworth
Fred Bodsworth was born in Port Burwell, Ontario. He has worked in tobacco fields and on tow tugs. He now lives in Toronto. He was a reporter for the St. Thomas Times-Journal from 1940-43; reporter and editor for The Toronto Star from 1943-47; staff writer for Maclean's from 1947-55, and a freelance magazine writer, nature writer, and novelist since then. He was president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists from 1964-67. He was also an organizer and leader of numerous worldwide ornithology tours and has contributed to numerous anthologies.
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Srđan Valjarević
Srđan Valjarević, popularni savremeni srpski književnik, rođen je u Beogradu. Objavio je više romana i knjiga poezije i proze.
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List na korici hleba (1990)
Džo Frejzer i 49 pesama (1992)
Ljudi za stolom (1994)
Zimski dnevnik (1995)
Džo Frejzer i 49 (+24) pesama (1996)
Dnevnik druge zime (2005)
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Momo Kapor
Momčilo "Momo" Kapor was a Serbian novelist, painter, and short story writer. Several successful films have been based upon his novels.
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Born in Sarajevo in 1937. He graduated the painting in 1961 at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovic. He has published many titles, novels and collections of stories. He has a large number of documentary films and television shows, all according to his screenplays, as well as several feature films (Almonds Beyond Death, Banquet (film), Walter Defends Sarajevo, Jolly DJ, End the Weekend). Una and The Book of Complaints were adapted as such. They have been translated into French, German, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Swedish.
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Rastko Petrović
Rastko Petrović (Belgrade, 1898 – Washington, D.C., 1949), poet, novelist, travel writer, essayist, ethnographer, gifted sketcher, cameraman and photographer. He graduated law in France, and on his return to Yugoslavia he worked as an art and literary critic. After this he was employed in the diplomatic service and posted to Italy and the USA. Based at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, D.C. during World War II, he remained in the United States after the war and died there.
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Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Zmaj was born in Novi Sad, then a city at the southern border of Hungary, on November 24, 1833. His family was an old and noble family. In his earliest childhood he showed a great desire to learn by heart the Serbian national songs which were recited to him, and even as a child he began to compose poems.
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His father, who was a highly cultivated and wealthy man, gave him his first education in his native city. After this he went to Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, and in these cities he finished his studies in law. This was the wish of his father, but his own inclinations prompted him to take up the study of medicine. He then returned to his native city, where a prominent official position was offered to him, which he accepted; but so strong were -
Vladan Desnica
Vladan Desnica (Zadar, 17. rujna 1905. - Zagreb, 4. ožujka 1967.), srpski književnik. Prvim se radovima javio uoči Drugoga svjetskog rata objavivši svoj novelistički prvijenac Životna staza Jandrije Kutlače (1935) u Magazinu sjeverne Dalmacije. Ali tek kad je objavio roman pod oksimoronskim naslovom Zimsko ljetovanje (1950.), Desnica je, prateći skupinu Zadrana koji su se pred savezničkim bombama tijekom rata sklonili u sela zadarskog zaleđa, ušao u književnost kroz glavna vrata i odmah stao u red prvih srpskih pripovjedača kao umjetnik visoko njegovane rečenice realističko-naturalističkog stila, koja ima uzor u stilu talijanskoga verizma pa je, unatoč agitpropovsko-cekaovskoj kritici, odmah pozdravljen i prihvaćen od najmlađih pisaca.
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Milovan Vitezović
Milovan Vitezović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Витезовић) is a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter. He writes poetry, novels, essays, reviews, aphorisms, and movie and TV scripts. He has published more than forty books in over one hundred and fifty editions, and his works are represented in over fifty anthologies of Serbian and international poetry, stories for children, aphorism, fantasy, and television drama. His probably most famous works are his novels, such as Lajanje na zvezde and others, which became a part of regular curriculum in Serbian schools.
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Milovan Vitezović je srpski pisac, profesor i scenarista. Piše pesme, romane, eseje, kritike, aforizme, filmska i tv scenarija. Objavio je više -
Biljana Jovanović
Biljana Jovanović je rođena 28. januara 1953. godine u Beogradu. Umrla je 11. marta 1996. godine u Ljubljani.
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Završila je filozofiju na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu.
Objavila je zbirku pesama Čuvar (1977), romane: Pada Avala.(Prosveta, 1978 i Nezavisno izdanje Slobodan Mašić, 1981), Psi i ostali (Prosveta, 1980) i Duša jedinica moja (BIGZ, 1984), drame: Ulricke Meinhof (osnova za predstavu “Stammheim”, SKC, Beograd, 1982, reditelji Ljubiša Ristić i Nada Kokotović), Leti u goru kao ptica (Atelje 212, Beograd, 1983, reditelj Zoran Ratković), Centralni zatvor (Naroden teater Bitola, 1922, reditelj Vlada Milćin) i Soba na Bosforu (objavljena u ProFemini br.1, Beograd, 1996).
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Jelena Lengold
Born on 15 July 1959 in Kruševac, Serbia. She has published eleven books which include six books of poetry, four books of stories and a novel. She is represented in a number of anthologies of poetry and stories, and her works have also been translated into a number of foreign languages. Jelena Lengold has worked as a journalist and an editor in the culture desk at Radio Belgrade. She has afterwards worked as a project coordinator of Nansenskolen Humanistic Academy in Lillehammer, Norway for the subject Conflict Theory. Since September 2011 she has been a freelance artist, dedicated solely to writing as her only profession. For the collection of stories The Fairground Magician she received the following awards: Biljana Jovanović, Žensko pero
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Karim Zaimović
Karim Zaimović was born in Sarajevo, May 6, 1971. After completing High School in Sarajevo in 1989, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, but after a few months transferred to the study of comparative literature at the University of Philosophy in Sarajevo. In his youth he was deeply involved with drawing and tireless reading, especially the works of fiction.
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Already in those years with him with great love for comics thanks to which grows into a versatile connoisseurs of domestic and international comic book so that he wrote a number of valuable articles, criticisms, and reviews in this area. Very early he started his career in journalism (as a 14-year-old he has been collaborating with Radio Sarajevo).
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Desanka Maksimović
She graduated from the gymnasium in Valjevo and the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
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Desanka was a professor of Serbian language from 1923 until 1953 in several schools: Obrenovac gymnasium, then the Third Female Gymnasium in Belgrade, after that she spent a year teaching in Dubrovnik (Croatia), as well as the First female gymnasium in Belgrade. One of her best students was Mira Alečković, who also became a poet and a close friend.
In August 1933 she married Sergij Slastikov, but they had no children of their own.
Because of the undying value of her poetry, Desanka Maksimović was elected on December 17, 1959 as an associate member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), and on December 16, 1965 she became a regular mem -
Vlada Arsić
Vlada Arsić, novinar, istraživač, autor romana "Lopatanje đavola" i dugogodišnji saradnik brojnih listova i časopisa, rođen je u Beogradu, 1963. godine. Novinarsku karijeru započeo je 1985. godine u Voždovačkim novinama, i do sada zabeležio na stotine reportaža o ljudima i sudbinama. Pisao je za NON, magazin Bre, Ilustrovanu politiku i Nacionalnu reviju, uređivao u Horizontu, reviji Sat i dnevnim novinama Press.
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Mirko Kovač
Mirko Kovač was a Yugoslav writer. In his rich career he wrote novels, short stories, essays, film scripts, TV and radio plays. Among his best known works are the novella "Životopis Malvine Trifković", the novels "Vrata od utrobe", "Grad u zrcalu", the short story collection "Ruže za Nives Koen", the book of essays "Evropska trulež" and the scripts for some of the most successful films of Yugoslav cinema like Mali vojnici, Lisice, Okupacija u 26 slika and Pad Italije among others.
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Kovač was born to a Croat father and a Serb mother in the village of Petrovići in Banjani region near Nikšić, Montenegro. He went to elementary school in Trebinje but after leaving his family at the age of 16 he went to Vojvodina where he finished high school in N -
Vladimir Tasić
Vladimir Tasic was born in 1965 in Novi Sad. He obtained his BA in Mathematics in Novi Sad in 1988. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1992. Since 1995 he has been professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). He has published two volumes of short stories, Pseudologia Fantastica and Radost brodlomnika, and two novels: Oproštajni dar (The Farewell Gift) and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper). The Farewell Gift was voted book of the year for 2001 by the panel of Radio Belgrade 2. The volume of short stories Radost brodolomnika has been translated into English as Herbarium of Souls (1998). The Farewell Gift has been published in French, Slovakian, Macedonian and German. Rain and Paper rec
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Maja Solar
Maja Solar (1980, Zagreb) je doktorirala filozofiju. Bavi se društvenom i političkom teorijom, piše poeziju i prozu. Članica je teorijsko-političkog kolektiva „Gerusija“, deo je uredništva časopisa za teorijske prakse „Stvar” i medijskog portala „Slobodni Filozofski‟. Objavila je tri zbirke poezije (Makulalalalatura 2008. (Brankova nagrada), Jellemzõ, hogy nem természetes (Naravno da nije prirodno) 2015. i Bez začina 2017), kao i poetsko-prozni eksperiment A htela sam (2022).
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Autorka je više od četrdeset naučnih radova iz društvene teorije. Oblasti interesovanja: marksizam, teorija socijalne reprodukcije, teorije rada, teorije vlasništva, teorije luksuza, istorija socijalizma itd. Interesuju je marksističke struje feminizama, prije svega lg -
Rafał Wojaczek
Rafał Wojaczek was a Polish poet and writer.
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As a poète maudit, his life was marked by abortive studies, alcoholism, depression and suicide attempts. He commited suicide by an overdose of various drugs, including diazepam.
His short career took place during the turbulent years of modern Poland when the younger generation began to realize that they were trapped in a mendacious political system.
His works focused on topics of life and death, obsession on carnality and feminity. He also provoked with presenting himself as an alcoholic and a sponger. He was famous for his frequent riots, scandals and alcoholism.
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Vasko Popa
Popa was born in the village of Grebenac, Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna. During World War II, he fought as a partisan and was imprisoned in a German concentration camp in Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin, Serbia).
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After the war, in 1949, Popa graduated from the Romanic group of the Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University. He published his first poems in the magazines Književne novine (Literary Magazine) and the daily Borba (Struggle).
From 1954 until 1979 he was the editor of the publishing house Nolit. In 1953 he published his first major verse collection, Kora (Bark). His other i -
Dušan Vesić
Dušan Vesić je rođen u Beogradu, na Svetu Petku 1959. godine. Smatraju ga jednim od najvažnijih rock-novinara Jugoslavije u periodu od 1980. do 1990. godine. Pisao je za gotovo sve relevantne novine i časopise tog vremena promovišući rock-kulturu. Bio je urednik za domaću scenu u časopisima Rock i Pop Rock. Bio je direktor festivala zabavne muzike Beogradski šlager – Menadžer (1992–1995). Od 1996. godine bavi se video-produkcijom. Autor je kultnog dokumentarnog TV-serijala Rockovnik (40 epizoda) i TV-serije i filma EKV – Kao da je bilo nekad. Živi u Beogradu i Puli.
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