Radoslav Bratić (28 June 1948 inBrestice, nearBileća,Bosnia-Herzegovina – 2 June 2016 inBelgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian writer, playwright and editor.[1] He was also a corresponding memberAcademy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska.
Radoslav Bratić finished primary school inKorita (near Bileća) and in Bileća, high school inTrebinje, and studied Yugoslav and world literature at theFaculty of Philology in Belgrade. He was the editor of the student magazineZnak, the magazineKnjiževnost, the newspaperKnjiževna reč, and the editor-in-chief of the magazineRelasion.
He worked as a secretary and vice-president of the Association of Writers of Serbia, then as an editor in the publishing house "BIGZ", where he edited a dozen libraries. Among other books, he edited the collected worksSlobodan Jovanović,Danilo Kiš, a set of booksBorislav Pekić, as well as the edition "New Books of Domestic Writers". He started the famous library "Conversations with Writers" and published several books in it. He also prepared the book Prayers and Petitions of His Holiness the Serbian PatriarchPavle.
Bratić made several selections in literature and edited several thematic blocks in newspapers and magazines, including literature China, India,Lusatian Serbs, and American blacks.
His short stories have been included in several anthologies and anthologies inYugoslavia and around the world, and have been translated into English,Hindi, German,Swedish,Polish,Czech,French,Chinese,Romanian,Russian andItalian. Bratic travelled to all these places and established cooperation with important people. As a result of this collaboration, a number of works in English, Hindi, and other languages were created.
He was elected a corresponding memberANURS outside the staff on 4 December 2015.[2]
He has also written several plays for radio and television. Alone or with associates, he prepared several anthologies of texts from foreign literature (Sorbian Serbs, Chinese, Indian, American blacks). As an editor at BIGZ, he edited a dozen libraries of domestic and foreign literature.
He has received numerous important awards: Mladost List, Isidora Sekulić Award,Andrić Prize, Ćamil Sijarić Award, Meša Selimović Award, Borbina Award, Petar Kočić Award 1999, Miloš Crnjanski Plaque, Golden Charter of Tsar Dušan, Svetozar Ćorović and others.
He lived and worked inBelgrade. He died on 2 June 2016 in the settlementKumodraž, in Belgrade in his apartment after a long and severe illness. He was buried inAlley of the Greats at theBelgrade New Cemetery.[3][4]
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