Slobodan Selenić

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  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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  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.
  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.
  A declared royalist, Dušan Kovačević is a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karađorđević. He is also a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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  Bojan Krivokapić

  Bojan Krivokapić je objavio sledeće knjige: „Trči Lilit, zapinju demoni“ (kratke priče, 2013), „Žoharov let“ (poezija, 2014), „Proleće se na put sprema“ (roman, 2017), „Gnezdo dečaka“ (poezija, 2019) i „Vila Fazanka“ (roman, 2023). Dobitnik je nagrada za prozu: Ulaznica (Zrenjanin, 2011), Đura Đukanov (Kikinda, 2012), Edo Budiša (Pazin, 2014), Lapis Histriae (Umag, 2021), Biber (Beograd – Sarajevo, 2021), Milutin Uskoković (Užice, 2021), Laza K. Lazarević (Šabac, 2022), kao i nagrade Mak Dizdar za zbirku poezije (Stolac, 2013). Za roman „Proleće se na put sprema“ godine 2018. dobija Nagradu Mirko Kovač za najbolje delo mladog autora u Srbiji, Bosni i Hercegovini, Hrvatskoj i Crnoj Gori. Književni tekstovi su mu prevedeni na italijanski, nem

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  Plato

  Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
  Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, H

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  Julian Barnes

  Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
  In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize.

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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.
  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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  Thomas Mann

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  See also:
  Serbian: Tomas Man
  
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important

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  Semezdin Mehmedinović

  Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.

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  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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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
  
  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.
  People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
  
  With this key figure of German literature, th

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  Borisav Stanković

  Борисав Станковић
  
  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.

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  Dragoslav Mihailović

  Dragoslav Mihailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Михаиловић) was a Serbian writer. He graduated in Yugoslav literature from the University of Belgrade in 1957 and was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1981. In 1950 he was arrested and imprisoned during two years, most notably at Goli Otok.

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  Miloš Crnjanski

  Miloš Crnjanski (in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански, pronounced [mîlɔʃ t͡srɲǎnskiː]) was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat. He initially wrote poetry but later turned to prose fiction and drama, as well. He wrote about his disillusionment, the futility of war and the destruction of his country.
  
  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

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  Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

  Maria Iordanidou
  Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
  
  Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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  Stevo Grabovac

  Stevo Grabovac je rođen u Slavonskom Brodu, a odrastao je i završio srednju školu u bosanskom Brodu. Studirao je na Tehnološkom fakultetu u Banjaluci. Objavio je zbirku pjesama „Stanica nepostojećih vozova“ 2007. godine. Njegov prvi roman „Mulat albino komarac“ stigao je u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu za 2019. godinu. Dobitnik je NIN-ove nagrade za svoj drugi roman "Poslije zabave" (2023).
  Živi i radi u Banjaluci.

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  Lana Bastašić

  Lana Bastašić rođena je u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj SFRJ, 1986. godine. Završila je studije anglistike i komunikologije u Banjoj Luci, i odbranila master rad iz Studija kulture na FPN u Beogradu. Objavila je dvije zbirke kratkih priča: Trajni pigmenti (SKC Kragujevac, 2010, konkurs edicije Prvenac) i Vatrometi (Čekić, Beograd, 2011). Samostalno je objavila knjigu priča za djecu, Nastja crta sunce (Banja Luka, 2015, ilustracije Sandre Dukić). Godine 2014. osvojila je prvu nagradu za neobjavljenu zbirku poezije na Danima poezije u Zaječaru i objavila Naivni triptih o Bosni i umiranju. Njen prvi roman, Uhvati zeca (Kontrast, Beograd 2018), dobitnik je Evropske nagrade za književnost 2020. godine. Roman je bio uvršten u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu

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  Kristian Novak

  Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and university professor. He was born into a family of Croatian migrant workers in Germany, but spent his childhood and youth in a small village in Međimurje, the most northern part of Croatia.
  He moved to Zagreb, to college in 1997.
  He was standard member of the Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global championships.
  In 2006. he was European Vice-Champion.
  His first novel, Obješeni (The Hanged) was published in 2005, but received no significant reception.
  Dark Mother Earth (2013), his second novel, won The Tportal prize for Croatian novel of the year and is hailed as one of the best Croatian novels in the last 50 years. T

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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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  Nadja Petrović

  Nađa Petrović (rođ. 1997) završila je dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti u
  Beogradu, kao i master iz filmske i TV režije, na istom fakultetu.
  
  Sa šesnaest godina osvojila je treće mesto na konkursu Mladi književni supertalenti kad
  joj je objavljen roman „To je to“. Njene priče objavljene su u zbirkama priča Priče sa
  gradskih ćoškova, Studentske priče i Mokri(n) čvor.
  
  Po njenim scenarijima snimljeno je desetine kratkih filmova koji su prikazani na preko
  100 festivala širom sveta i nagrađivani su na Sarajevo film festivalu, Les Arcs festivalu u
  Francuskoj, Martovskom film festivalu, Beldocs film festivalu. Za film “Sve kako treba”
  dobila je nagradu za najbolji scenario na festivalu Bašta fest.
  
  Režirala je kratke igrane filmove i kratki dokume

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  Miodrag Majić

  Miodrag Majić (Beograd, 1969) sudija je Apelacionog suda u Beogradu. Doktorirao je krivično pravo specijalizujući se za međunarodno-krivičnopravnu oblast. Samostalno i u koautorstvu, objavio je deset monografija i više od trideset članaka iz oblasti krivičnog i međunarodnog krivičnog prava, i učestvovao je u izradi najznačajnijih zakona u ovim oblastima. Predsednik je Upravnog odbora i jedan od osnivača Centra za pravosudna istraživanja (CEPRIS). Već desetak godina redovno objavljuje tekstove na svom blogu (www.misamajic.com), u kojima otvoreno govori o korupciji, nepotizmu i političkim pritiscima u pravosuđu. Roman Deca zlanjegov je prvi roman. Živi sa suprugom, dva sina i šnaucerom u Beogradu.
  

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  Mirjana Drljević

  Mirjana Drljević, rođena 1971. u Beogradu, autorka je drame San o Svetom Petru Cetinjskom igrane u Crnogorskom narodnom pozorištu i javno čitane u Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu, kao i drame Suncokreti izvođene u Narodnom pozorištu „Sterija“ u Vršcu.
  
  Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo njen je debitantski roman.
  
  Čita, piše, živi i radi u Beogradu.

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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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