Antonije Isaković

Antonije Isaković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Антоније Исаковић ; born November 6, 1923 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † January 13, 2002 ibid., Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav and later Serbian writer and politician.

Life

Memorial plaque on the house he lived in from 1963 to 2002 in Belgrade

Isaković played a leading role in the resistance movement during World War II. After the war he became a member of the parliament. He was the director of the Prosveta publishing house . 1980–1992 he was chairman of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was instrumental in drawing up the SANU memorandum . In the 1990s he was a member of the Socijalistička Partija Srbije , a member of parliament and one of the deputies of the Serbian President Slobodan Milošević , to whom he later distanced himself.

Works

Isaković was a publicist. He wrote stories and scripts that deal with the people's liberation struggle, and later also Stalinism ( Tren , awarded the Andrić Prize in 1976). His works are excellently structured and are characterized by psychologically good descriptions.

Velika deca , short stories, Belgrade 1953

Paprat i vatra , short stories, Belgrade 1962

Pripovetke , 1964

Prazni bregovi , short stories, Belgrade 1969

Sabrana dela 5 vols. Belgrade 1976

Tren 1 , Roman, Belgrade 1976

Sabrana dela, 5 vols., 1976-82

Tren 2 , Roman, Belgrade 1982

Berlin broken , Belgrade 1982

Obraz , short stories, 1988

Govori i razgovori , 1990

U znaku aprila: i druge priče , Belgrade 1991

Miran zločin , Roman, Belgrade 1992

Drugi deo mog veka: da se ne zaboravi , 1993

Gospodar i sluge , Roman, Belgrade 1995

Riba , 1998

Nestajanje , 2000

Scripts:

Aleksa Dundić , 1958 (Direction: Leonid Lukov )
Jedini izlaz , 1958 (Direction: Aleksandar Petrović / Vicko Raspor )
Dve noći u jednom danu , 1963 (Director: Radenko Ostojić )
Tri , 1965 (Director: Aleksandar Petrović )
Tren , 1978 (Director: Stole Janković )
Berlin kaputt , 1981 (Director: Milivoje Milošević )

Individual evidence

↑ Why I fell out with Milošević (Serbian), report from October 1999 in the Vreme about a call for an end to Milošević's rule (Serbian), signed by Isaković and others.

personal data
SURNAME	Isaković, Antonije
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Исаковић, Антоније (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav or Serbian writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 2002
Place of death	Belgrade

[1] Why I fell out with Milošević (Serbian), report from October 1999 in the Vreme about a call for an end to Milošević's rule (Serbian), signed by Isaković and others.