Milovan Danojlić

Milovan Danojlić ( born July 3, 1937 in Ivanovci near Ljig in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia) is a Serbian writer living in France today ( 2013).

Life

After completing his studies in French Serbia Danojlić went in 1984 as a lecturer in Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Poitiers in France, where he has lived ever since. Danojlić was a member of the founding committee of the Demokratska Stranka (DS ), which was the first non-communist party in Yugoslavia prior to the revolution of 1989. Since 2000 he is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1997 he received the NIN literary award for his novel Oslobodioci i izdajnici ( liberator and traitors ).

Since 2010 Danojlić is a regular author of a column in the Serbian weekly NIN.

Works

Novels

• Kako per Dobrislav protrčao kroz Jugoslaviju ( How Dobrislav through Yugoslavia ran ), 2nd edition 1981
• Zmijin svlak ( snakeskin ), 1983
• Kao divlja zver. Teškoće ljudima s i sa stvarima ( like a wild animal. Difficulties with people and objects ), 1985
• Dragi moj Petroviću, 1990 ( ISBN 86-09-00259-4 ); German Translation: My dear Petrović, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-42180-2

Short stories

• Neka vrsta cirkusa ( Some types of circus ), 1989 (ISBN 86-7343-017-8 )

Poetry

• Rodna godina (year of birth ), 1972
• Muka s rečima ( The plague with the words ), 1978
• Pesme ( poems ), 1978; 6th edition, 1991 ( ISBN 86-19-01508-7 )
• STA sunce Večera (What the sun in the evening), 2nd edition, 1991 ( ISBN 86-09-00289-6 )

Children's book

• Kako spavaju tramvaji, collection of poems, 1959 ( As the trams sleep )