Laza Lazarević
Laza K. Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Лаза К. Лазаревић, May 1, 1851-January 10, 1891) was Serbian writer and psychiatrist.
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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Radoje Domanović was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories.
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Domanović was born in a village Ovsište which is located in Topola municipality, Šumadija District. He attended a gymnasium in Kragujevac. Some of his teachers were Pera Đorđević and Sreten Stojković, followers of Svetozar Marković, who were arrested for an attempt to take control of the local government and displaying a red flag. From 1890 to 1894, Domanović studied at the history and philology department of Belgrade's Grande Ecole (what soon became the University of Belgrade). He read some of his first works to the members of a student organization Pobratimstvo (Bloodbrothers).
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Svetolik Ranković
Svetolik P. Ranković (1863–1899) bio je srpski pisac iz perioda realizma. Iako njegovo književno delo nije obimno, kritika ga ubraja u pronicljive autore koji su uspeli da prikažu sliku Srbije osamdesetih i devedesetih godina 19. veka.
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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 -
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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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 -
René Guillot
René Paul Guillot (1900-1969) was an author who lived, worked and traveled in French Africa and wrote primarily for children. His works have been translated to many languages and have been included in school required reading in many countries.
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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. -
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.
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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 -
Honoré de Balzac
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .
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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.
Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Mar -
Branislav Nušić
Born Alkibijad Nuša (Aromanian: Alchiviadi al Nuşa) in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia to a well-off family, Nušić enjoyed the benefits of a privileged upbringing for only a brief time. His father Đorđe Nuša was a well known grain merchant of Cincar (Aromanian Vlach) origin who lost his wealth shortly after his son's birth and was forced to move the family to Smederevo where young Alkibijad attended elementary school and first two grades of boarding school. During his teens, Nuša moved back to Belgrade where he graduated from boarding school. Upon turning 18 years of age, he legally changed his name to Branislav Nušić. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. During his studies, he also spent a year in Graz, Aust
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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 -
Radoje Domanović
Radoje Domanović was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories.
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Domanović was born in a village Ovsište which is located in Topola municipality, Šumadija District. He attended a gymnasium in Kragujevac. Some of his teachers were Pera Đorđević and Sreten Stojković, followers of Svetozar Marković, who were arrested for an attempt to take control of the local government and displaying a red flag. From 1890 to 1894, Domanović studied at the history and philology department of Belgrade's Grande Ecole (what soon became the University of Belgrade). He read some of his first works to the members of a student organization Pobratimstvo (Bloodbrothers).
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Milovan Glišić
Milovan Glišić (1847–1908) was a famous Serbian writer, dramatist, and literary theorist. He is sometimes considered to be the Serbian Gogol, due to the Ukrainian author's influence on his writing.
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Glišić began his literary translations in satirical newspapers, and then moved to the original short story. His original work includes two theater pieces, "Two coins" and "Spoofing" and two collections of short stories. The collections are, among others, his popular humorous and satirical stories: "Sugar Head", "Roga", "Not about what", "Pricker for fire", "Walk after death," An ominous number"," Rare beast " ; also "After ninety years" and a lyrical sketch "The first furrow".
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Dragoslav Mihailović
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Petar II Petrović Njegoš
Radivoje "Rade" Tomov Petrović was born on 13 November (1 November Old Style), 1813 in the village of Njeguši, the capital of the Montenegrin district of Katunska Nahija. He was the son of Tomo Markov Petrović and Ivana Proroković Petrović. He had two brothers, Pero and Jovan, and two sisters. His was a member of the House of Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishops of Montenegro for over a century. At the time of his birth, Montenegro did not exist as a state. The borders were undefined and Montenegro was recognised as part of the Ottoman Empire, while its de jure ruler was a Venetian Governor. Power actually lay with the squabbling, disunited clan chiefs, who variously recognised the authority of the Austrian Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Ot
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Jovan Sterija Popović
Jovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School (The University of Belgrade was established in 1808 from the Belgrade Higher School). He made fun of snobbery, vanity, fad and false patriotism and was a writer whose work exceeded the limits of literary epoch he wrote in.
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Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals of his time and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature. -
Miloš Crnjanski
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Crnjanski was born in Csongrád, present day Hungary in 1893. His father was a municipal notary. The family moved to Temesvár (now Timisoara in Romania), where he grew up in a Serbian environment, favouring Serbian nationalism. After high school, he studied in Rijeka and then Vienna. After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, he was persecuted like other Serbs and then drafted into the army to fight the Rus -
Jakov Ignjatović
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Anton Chekhov
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
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Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 -
Branimir Šćepanović
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His famous novel Usta puna zemlje (Mouth full of earth) had 32 editions in Serbia and 23 editions in France. Šćepanović's 1977 novel, Smrt gospodina Goluže (The Death of Mr. Goluzha) was adapted in 1997 by Alan Wade for the film he directed, and was released by Fine Line Features and New Line International.
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Jakov Ignjatović
Jakov Ignjatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јаков Игњатовић;1822 –1889) was a multifaceted figure in both Serbian and Hungarian cultural and political life, known primarily as a novelist and prose writer. Born in Szentendre, a town with a rich Serbian heritage, Ignjatović’s early life set the stage for his later complex identity. He attended elementary school in Szentendre before continuing his studies at the Gymnasium in Vác, Esztergom, and Pest. Though he enrolled in Law School in Pest, his restless spirit led him to abandon his studies and join the hussars, embracing the Romantic ideals of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
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René Guillot
René Paul Guillot (1900-1969) was an author who lived, worked and traveled in French Africa and wrote primarily for children. His works have been translated to many languages and have been included in school required reading in many countries.
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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.
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Simo Matavulj
Simo Matavulj (Šibenik, 12. septembar 1852 – Beograd, 20. februar 1908) je bio srpski pisac iz Dalmacije, koji pripada epohi realizma. Njegova najpoznatija dela su roman Bakonja fra Brne i pripovetka Pilipenda.
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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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Milovan Glišić
Milovan Glišić (1847–1908) was a famous Serbian writer, dramatist, and literary theorist. He is sometimes considered to be the Serbian Gogol, due to the Ukrainian author's influence on his writing.
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Glišić began his literary translations in satirical newspapers, and then moved to the original short story. His original work includes two theater pieces, "Two coins" and "Spoofing" and two collections of short stories. The collections are, among others, his popular humorous and satirical stories: "Sugar Head", "Roga", "Not about what", "Pricker for fire", "Walk after death," An ominous number"," Rare beast " ; also "After ninety years" and a lyrical sketch "The first furrow".
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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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Branko Radičević
Branko Radicevic je bio redak talenat koji je, sredinom devetnaestog veka, srpsku poeziju oplodio cistim narodnim jezikom. Napisao je svega pedeset cetiri i sedam epskih pesama,
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dva odlomka epskih pesama, dvadeset osam pisama i jedan odgovor na kritiku.
Kult Branka Radicevica je jedinstven i srpskoj poeziji i sire. Krajem sedamnaestog veka, Radicevici si, u velikoj seobi, dosli i Srem, i Boljevce. Brankov cukundeda Jefta poreklom je iz okruga kragujevackog. U Boljevcima zive i Brankovi pradeda Djordje i deda Stevan koji, krstareci Sremom, ponajvise se zadrzava u Kupinovu i Klenku, a zatim u Zemunu i Vrscu, odakle se doselio u Brod na Savi.
Brankov otac Teodor ozenio se Ruzom Mihajlovic, kcerkom bogatog vukovarskog trgovca Janka Mihajlovica, ma