Steve Tesich

Steve Tesich ( born September 29, 1942 as Stojan Tešić in Užice, Yugoslavia, † July 1, 1996 in Sydney, Canada ) was a Serbian -American author and screenwriter.

He came at the age of fourteen in East Chicago, Indiana / USA and studied Russian literature at the universities of Indiana and Columbia. Tesich wrote numerous novels, plays and screenplays, including the Oscar-winning screenplay for the film Breaking Away - We provide all of us creates and none for Garp and how he saw the world. Tesichs novel, credits, was published in 1999 ( and again in 2006 ) in German. His first published in 1982 Summer Crossing ( One last summer, was published in 2005 in German with the Swiss publisher Kein & Aber ). Steve Tesich died in 1996 at the age of 53 years of a heart attack.

In 2005, the Serbian Ministry of the Diaspora a Stojan Stiv Tešić Literature Prize launched, which is awarded annually to ethnic Serbs writers who publish their works in another language.

Filmography

Novels

" One last summer ", ISBN 3-548-60678-4

A coming of age novel: The young, inexperienced live narrator, Daniel spends after high school an aimless time until he met his first love, the exotic Rachel. Your unfathomable character and her love for an older man but not allow Daniel to tie them to him. When his father dies of cancer patients, which has connected him a deep love-hate relationship, he pulls back and begins fictional diaries to write him famous people, to understand their motives. After a final farewell to Rachel Daniel is a new name and goes out into the world.

" Guy ", ISBN 3-548-60677-6