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Vladimir Tabašević

Vladimir Tabašević (1986) rođen je u Mostaru pod punim imenom Bošnjak-Tabašević Vladimir, od oca Hrvata i majke Srpkinje. Uoči građanskog rata na prostorima bivše Jugoslavije, sa majkom prelazi u Beograd. Učiteljica mu u prvim razredima osnovne škole samoinicijativno iz imena briše očevo prezime Bošnjak. Autor je knjiga poezije Koagulum (2010), Tragus (2011), Kundak (2012) i Hrvatski kundak (2014) i romana Tiho teče Misisipi (2015). Osnivač je i jedan od urednika internet časopisa Prezupč (prezupc.com). Živi na periferiji Beograda.

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Dejan Tiago-Stanković

Dejan Tiago Stanković, author and literary translator.

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1965. In 1989 graduates from architecture in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and moves to London. Since 1996 lives in Lisbon. Translates between his native Serbo-Croatian and Portuguese and writes in both those languages.

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Rajko Grlić

Rajko Grlić is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Zagreb, he graduated in film directing at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic 1971.

As director and scriptwriter he worked on eleven theatrical features. These films were shown in cinemas across all five continents, they were included in competition programmes of leading world festivals, from Cannes onwards, and they received a numerous international awards.

He has worked on five feature films as scriptwriter and on five as producer.
He wrote, directed and produced How to Make Your Movie; An Interactive Film School, which was proclaimed the Best World Multi-media in 1998.

He is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Film at Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.

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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.

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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Rodolphe Archibald Reiss

Rudolphe Archibald Reiss (8 July 1875 – 7 August 1929) was a German-Swiss criminology-pioneer, forensic scientist, professor and writer.

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David Albahari

David Albahari (Serbian Cyrillic: Давид Албахари, pronounced [dǎv̞id albaxǎːriː] was a Serbian writer. Albahari wrote mainly novels and short stories. He was also a highly accomplished translator from English into Serbian.
Albahari was awarded the prestigious NIN Award for the best novel of 1996 for Mamac (Bait). He was a member of SANU (Serbian Academy Of Sciences And Arts).

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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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Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriormente trabajó en el laboratorio Curie de París, antes de en 1945 volcarse por completo en la literatura.

Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.

Entre sus obras más destacadas encontramos El túnel (1948), una novela psicológica que explora la alienación y la obsesión; Sobre héroes y tumbas(1961), c

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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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Bora Ćosić

Bora Ćosić is a Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav novelist, essayist, translator and opinionated intellectual.

He was born in Zagreb in 1932, He lived most of his life in Belgrade until 1991, when he moved to Rovinj and later to Berlin, where he currently resides. A recipient of multiple awards, including the Nin Prize, he is known for his satirical and humorous style, exemplified in his cult novel Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji (t. My Family's Role in the World Revolution). Ćosić is recognized as an important voice from the former Yugoslavia.

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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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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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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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Jerzy Kosiński

Kosiński was born Josef Lewinkopf to Jewish parents in Łódź, Poland. As a child during World War II, he lived in central Poland under a false identity his father gave him to use, Jerzy Kosiński. A Roman Catholic priest issued him a forged baptismal certificate. The Kosiński family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers, who offered assistance to Jewish Poles often at great personal risk (the penalty for assisting Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland was death). Kosiński's father received help not only from Polish town leaders and churchmen, but also from individuals such as Marianna Pasiowa, a member of the Polish underground network helping Jews to evade capture. The family lived openly in Dąbrowa Rzeczycka near Stalowa Wola, and attende

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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.

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).

Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.

Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic fi

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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

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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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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a

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Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić was a Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian.

Pavić wrote five novels which were translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side of the Wind, Last Love in Constantinople and Unique Item as well as many short stories not in English translation.

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Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised, have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive international critical response, Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Platefo

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Knut Hamsun

Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.

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Vladimir Arsenijević

An awarded and internationally acclaimed writer and prolific cultural worker and activist. He won the 1994 NIN-award thus becoming the youngest recipient to win this prestigious prize (novel: In the Hold). This was the very first debut book ever to be awarded with this significant prize. The anti-war book was soon translated into 20 languages and placed Arsenijevic almost instantly among the most translated Balkan writers ever. Since then, Arsenijevic continued to publish novels, short story and essays collections and even graphic novels at a steady pace. As of 2021, he published 11 books of prose and established himself also as a well known columnist and literary editor. In 2000 he formed and developed the RENDE publishing house, and worke

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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.

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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Hasan Kikić

Hasan Kikić was a well known Bosnian writer and a fighter for social justice.

Kikić grew up in a poor family. His talent for literature was discovered early on. Thanks to his uncle he was able to attend the school for teachers in Derventa. He led a student protest and was soon expelled but able to finish in Zagreb. After graduation he joined the army where his literary career began with publication of his works in various literary journals and magazines. After the army he married Anka Jovanović in August 1932. He was worried that his wife would be persecuted for marrying someone of different religion and he permanently moved to Croatia. Because of his political activism he was noticed (negatively) by the government. He joined the Partisans

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Milo Lompar

Serbian literary historian, professor.

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Maša Seničić

Maša Seničić (Beograd, 1990) posvećena je u svom radu raznim oblicima teksta, od poetskih, preko novinarskih, do akademskih. Diplomirala je dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti u Beogradu i u okviru iste institucije završila master Teorije dramskih umetnosti i medija.

Seničič je u proteklih deset godina sarađivala na raznorodnim domaćim i međunarodnim projektima, pre svega u polju filma kao autorka, ko-autorka, moderatorka i koordinatorka, a zatim u pozorištu, na radiju i u medijima (pre svega na BeforeAfter.rs kao glavna urednica). Ko-selektorka je programa Hrabri Balkan (Festival autorskog filma), jedna od osnivača udruženja Filmkultura, kao i mentorka edukativnih programa ovog udruženja i drugih inicijativa. Njena proza i poezija

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Goran Korunović

GORAN KORUNOVIĆ (1978) pesnik je i predavač na Filološkom fakultetu u Beogradu. Rođen je u Jagodini. Objavio je pesničke knjige: Gostoprimstva (2011), Reka kaiševa (2012), Crvena planeta (2014), Usta bez kapaka (2019), Manastir (2023) kao i komparativne oglede Literatura i opasnost (2013) i komparativnu studiju Muze ideologije (2020).

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Svetislav Basara

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