Milisav Savic

Milisav Savic is writer, born on 15 April 1945 in the village of Vlasovo near Raska. He attended elementary school in Raska and high school in Novi Pazar. He graduated from University of Belgrade, where he majored in Yugoslav and world literature, in 1969. He attained his M. A. and Ph. D. from the same university, the latter with the dissertation "Memoir and Autobiographical Prose about Serbo-Turkish Wars 1876-78". He has taught Serbo-Croatian at London University (1977/78), SUNY, Albany (1985/87), the University of Florence (1990/92 and the University of Lodz, Poland (1999/2000). He was the first editor in chief of the literary periodical "Knjizevna rec" (Literary Word), 1972/1977, In 1980 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the leading literary newspapers, "Književne novine" ("Literary Gazette"). In 1983 he became the main editor in the largest and most important publishing house in Serbia, "Prosveta" ("Education"). In 2005/2008 Savic is in Rome working in The Embassy of Serbia. After his return from Rome, he was appointed professor of literature at the State University of Novi Pazar.

Works

Short-stories collections: "The Bulgarian Shack" (1969), "Young Men from Raska" (1977), "Uncle about Town" (1977, Andric award), "30 plus 18" (2005), "Love letters and other lessons" (2012).

Novels: "The Loves of Andrija Kurandic" (1972), "The Poplar on the Terrace" (1985), "The Urn of the Guerilla Commander" (1990), "Bread and Fear" (1991, "NIN award" ), "The Scars of Silence" (1997), "The Prince and Serbian Writer", included in the book "Roman Diary, Stories and One Novel" (2008), "Cvarcic" (2010), "La sans pareille" (2015 Mesa Selimovic award, 2015 award "Borina nagrada" ), "The valley of Serbian kings" (2015).

Savic has also been the editor and translator of several anthologies of foreign literature into Serbian (American, Australian, Italian) and written three collections of essays. His novels have been translated into English, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Slovenian.