Filip David

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Filip David
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David in 2013
Native name Филип Давид
Born (1940-07-04) July 4, 1940 (age 84)
Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Occupation writer
Language Serbian
Nationality Serbian
Alma mater University of Belgrade
Notable awards NIN Award
2014 Kuća sećanja i zaborava

Filip David (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Давид; born 4 July 1940) is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" (House of memory and oblivion).[1]

Biography

David was born in 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts.[2] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade.[3] In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in Sarajevo, in then-SFR Yugoslavia. He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Cirlce" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milošević.[4] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.[5]

Work

David has written several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, short story collections and novels.[2]

Short story collections:

  • "Bunar u tamnoj šumi" (English: "A Well in a Dark Forrest")
  • "Zapisi o stvarnom i nestvarnom" ("Notes of the real and the unreal")
  • "Princ vatre" ("Fire Prince")
  • "Sabrane i nove priče" ("Collected and New Stories")

Novels:

  • "Hodočasnici neba i zemlje" ("Pilgrims of the Earth and the Sky")
  • "San o ljubavi i smrti" ("A Dream of Love and Death")
  • "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" ("House of memory and oblivion")

Books of essays:

  • "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" ("Fragments from Dark Times")
  • "Jesmo li čudovišta" ("Are We Monsters")
  • "Svetovi u haosu" ("Worlds in Chaos")

References

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