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 1987, he was awarded the Andrić Prize for his short story collection Princ Vatre,[1] and in 2015 he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel Kuća sećanja i zaborava ("The House of Remembering and Forgetting").[2]
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| Native name | Филип Давид |
| Born | July 4, 1940 Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Serbian |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Notable awards | NIN Award 2014 Kuća sećanja i zaborava |
Biography
editDavid was born in 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 Kragujevac massacre committed by occupation forces during the World War II in Yugoslavia.[3] 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.[4] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade.[5] 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 Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milošević.[6] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.[7]
The writer is signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins within the project Languages and Nationalisms.[8] The declaration is against political separation of four Serbo-Croatian standard variants that leads to a series of negative social, cultural and political phenomena in which linguistic expression is enforced as a criterion of ethno-national affiliation and as a means of political loyalty in successor states of Yugoslavia.[9]
Work
editDavid has written several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, short story collections and novels.[4]
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" ("The House of Memory and Oblivion",[10] also translated as "The House of Remembering and Forgetting"[11])
Books of essays:
- "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" ("Fragments from Dark Times")
- "Jesmo li čudovišta" ("Are We Monsters")
- "Svetovi u haosu" ("Worlds in Chaos")
References
edit- ^ "Andrić Prize". Задужбина Иве Андрића. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Filip David dobitnik 61.Ninove nagrade" [Filip David Winner of the 61. NIN Prize]. Vecernje novosti. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Dejan Djokić (2023). A Concise History of Serbia. Cambridge University Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-107-02838-8.
- ^ a b Radovanović, Rade (8 February 2014). "Koliko vredi ljudski život" [How much is worth a human life]. Danas. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "О холокаусту и последицама" [The Holocaust and the consequences] (in Serbian). Politika. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "Filip David: Beogradom sada šeta oko tri stotine potencijalnih ratnih zločinaca" [Filip David: Around three hundred potential war criminals walk in Belgrade now] (in Serbo-Croatian). Oslobođenje. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ "Filip David" (in Serbian). Laguna. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ^ Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. Večernji List (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ Jezici i nacionalizmi Archived 2018-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
- ^ Knjizara.com: The House of Memory and Oblivion
- ^ Peter Owen Publishers: The House of Remembering and Forgetting
