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.
He is considered to be one of the most important and most influential Serbian writers in the period between the two world wars.
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Goran Petrović
One of the most significant and most widely read contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University.
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He worked as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery.
Awards:
the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship;
the "Prosveta Award";
the "Meša Selimović Award";
the "Charter of Rača",
the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award";
the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001);
the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo;
the "Borislav Stanković Award".
Petrović's books have been reprinted several times. His novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
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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 -
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Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
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George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
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He worked as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery.
Awards:
the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship;
the "Prosveta Award";
the "Meša Selimović Award";
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the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award";
the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001);
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the "Borislav Stanković Award".
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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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.
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Đorđe Lebović
Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog
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