Rajko Đurić

Rajko Djuric (surname also Germanized Djuric; born October 3, 1947 in Malo Orašje, municipality Smederevo, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian writer and politician.

He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University and completed his doctorate on the culture of living in Yugoslavia Roma. He is even on this people group and was 1990-2000 President of the International Romani Union. In the 1980s, he was head of the culture department of the Belgrade newspaper Politika. Shortly before the beginning of the Yugoslav wars, he moved in 1991 pacifist because of his attitude and his opposition to the nationalist Serbian President Slobodan Milošević to Berlin. He was a member of the PEN center of Germany.

He writes poetry, essays and books on historical, cultural and literary themes. Since 2001 he has been Secretary General of the International Roma PEN Centre. His publications include several articles in the journal "Lettering International".

In 2004 he returned to Belgrade. In the parliamentary election in January 2007, he was elected as a candidate of the party Unija Roma Srbije ( Roma Union of Serbia ), over which he presides in the Serbian parliament. In the subsequent early parliamentary elections in Serbia in 2008 he won no mandate.

Works

• Gypsy elegies. Poems in Romani and German, 1989 ( ISBN 3-87118-923-5 )
• ( with A. Bertolt Bengsch ): the disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1992 ( ISBN 3-371-00325-6 )
• Roma and Sinti in the mirror of German literature. An essay, 1995 (ISBN 3-631-48018-0 )
• ( with A. Bertolt Bengsch ): Without Home - Without grave: the history of the Roma and Sinti, 1996 ( ISBN 3-351-02418-5 )
• The literature of the Roma and Sinti, 2002 ( ISBN 3-88402-307-1 )
• ( with Ljatif M. Demir ): Kratka istorija na Romite ( A Brief History of the Roma ), 2005 ( Macedonian )
• ( with Antun Miletic ): Istoriia holokausta Roma ( History of the Holocaust against the Roma ), 2008 (ISBN 978-86-7607-092-3 )