Miodrag Bulatović | |
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 Bulatović in 1969 | |
| Born | (1930-02-20)20 February 1930 |
| Died | 15 March 1991(1991-03-15) (aged 61) |
| Resting place | Belgrade New Cemetery |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Yugoslav |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy |
Miodrag Bulatović (Serbian Cyrillic:Миодраг Булатовић; 20 February 1930 – 15 March 1991) was a writer, novelist, journalist and playwright.[1]
Bulatović began in 1956 with a book of short stories,Djavoli dolaze ("The Devils Are Coming", translated asStop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His novelThe Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of northeasternMontenegro, was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. He then stopped publishing for a time, to protest against state interference in his work.
His next novel,Hero on a Donkey, "A dark hot nightmare of a war novel...",[2] was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia.
Common themes in his works are demons, evil, the grotesque, and black humor.[3]
In 1975, Bulatović won theNIN Award for novel of the year forPeople with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life.[4]The Fifth Finger was a sequel to that book. His last novel wasGullo Gullo, which brought together various themes from his previous books.[citation needed]
A library inRakovica is named after him.[5]
Bulatović was known "for his fierceSerbian nationalism, which earned him the enmity of other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia, and he was an official ofSerbia's Socialist Party."[6] His candidature for the President of theAssociation of Writers of Yugoslavia in 1986 was rejected by Slovenian, Kosovan, Montenegrin and Croatian branches of the Association contributing to the subsequent dissolution of the Association in 1989.[7]
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