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Danilo Kiš
Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav and Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.
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culture · Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989) · poet · novelist · screenwriter · literary editor · translator · writer · also Danilo Kiš, Danilo Kis, Kiš
Born 22 February 1935 · Died 15 October 1989 · Q310562
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2012· 1 entry
Dalkey released The Attic, Psalm 44, and the posthumous collection of stories The Lute and the Scars, capably translated by John K
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2009· 1 entry
Global Voices Online: The Balkans: Danilo Kiš
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1989· 2 entries
Died 1989-10-15.
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The cancer returned and he died on October 15 1989
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Preis der SWR-Bestenliste (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Andrić Prize for The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983).
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Published The Encyclopedia of the Dead
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1981· 1 entry
Dragan Jeremić, a professor of aesthetics at the University of Belgrade and opponent of Kiš, published Narcissus without a Face in which he reasserted his claim that Kiš had plagiarized A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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1976· 1 entry
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich was published
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded NIN Prize for Hourglass (1972).
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1962· 1 entry
Published his first two novels, Mansarda (translated as The Garret) and Psalm 44
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1958· 2 entries
Studied at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology (1958).
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As the first student at the University of Belgrade to be awarded a degree in comparative literature
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1941· 1 entry
Territory was annexed and officials began to persecute Jews in the region
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1939· 1 entry
Oversaw three-year-old Danilo's baptism into the Eastern Orthodox Church in Novi Sad, where the Kiš family resided at the time
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-02-22.
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1930· 1 entry
In Subotica and married the following year
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