Danilo Kiš
Danilo Kiš (Данило Киш) (1935-1989) is possibly the most well known ex-Yugoslavian writer alongside the Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić.
Life and work
Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica (Vojvodina, Serbia), as the son of a Montenegrin mother and his Jewish father. During World War II he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. He lived in Hungary and then moved to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960. In 1962 he published his first two novels, Mansards and Psalam 44. Kiš received the prestigious NIN Award for his Peščanik ("Hourglass") in 1973, which he returned a few years later, over a political dispute.
During the following years Kiš received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry.
Kiš was married to Mirjana Miočinović from 1962 to 1981; after their separation he lived with Pascale Delpech, until his early death on October 15, 1989 in Paris.
Bibliography
- Mansarda: satirična poema 1962 (novel)
- Psalam 44 1962 (novel)
- Bašta, pepeo 1965 (novel)
- Rani jadi: za decu i osetljive 1969 (short stories)
- Peščanik 1972 (novel)
- Po-etika 1972 (essey)
- Po-etika, knjiga druga 1974 (interviews)
- Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča: sedam poglavlja jedne zajedničke povesti 1976 (short stories)
- Čas anatomije 1978 (polemic novel)
- Noć i magla 1983 (drama)
- Homo poeticus 1983 (essays and interviews)
- Enciklopedija mrtvih 1983 (short stories)
- Gorki talog iskustva 1990 (interviews)
- Život, literatura 1990 (interviews and essays)
- Pesme i prepevi 1992 (peotry)
- Lauta i ožiljci 1994 (short stories)
- Skladište 1995 (texts)
- Varia 1995 (essays, articles and short stories)
- Pesme, Elektra 1995 (poetry and an adaptation from the drama "Elektra")