Milisav Savić | |
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 Savić in 2013 | |
| Born | (1945-04-15)15 April 1945 (age 80) |
| Alma mater | University of BelgradeFaculty of Philosophy |
Milisav Savić(Serbian Cyrillic: Милисав Савић; born 15 April 1945[1]) is a Serbian writer and novelist.
He attended elementary school in Raška and high school inNovi Pazar. Later, he graduated fromUniversity of Belgrade, where he majored in Yugoslav and world literature in 1969. He attained his M. A. and PhD. from the same university, the latter with the dissertation "Memoir and Autobiographical Prose about Serb-Turkish Wars 1876–78".[1]
Savić was the first editor in chief of the literary periodical "Knjizevna rec" (Literary Word), 1972/1977. In 1980, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the leading literary newspapers "Književne novine" ("Literary Gazette"). In 1983 he became the main editor in the largest publishing house inSerbia, "Prosveta" ("Education"). In 2005/2008 he worked inRome in The Embassy of Serbia as minister adviser.[2]After his return from Rome, he worked as a professor of literature at the State University of Novi Pazar.[3]
In 1977 and 1978, he taught Serbo-Croatian atLondon University, later at SUNY,Albany (1985/87), the University ofFlorence (1990/92 and the University ofLodz,Poland (1999/2000).[2]
Savić is the editor and translator of several anthologies of foreign literature into Serbian (American and Italian) and the writer of three collections of essays.
