Bora Cosic

Bora Ćosić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бора Ћосић ; born April 5, 1932 in Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian writer .

Life

Born in Zagreb, Ćosić grew up in Belgrade . He graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in philosophy . In the 1950s and 1960s he was an employee and editor of various literary magazines ( Mlada kultura , Delo , Književnost , Knjiiževne novine , Revija Danas ). He later worked in the dramaturgical department of the Belgrade production company Avala Film .

For his novel The Role of My Family in the World Revolution , Ćosić (1969 or 1970) received the critics' award from the renowned Belgrade weekly NIN ( Nedelnje Informativne Novine ).

In 1992 Ćosić left Serbia to protest against the Milošević regime and went to Rovinj (Croatia) and later to Berlin . At the time of the Yugoslav wars , he only called Belgrade “the city from which the war is ruled” .

He was a columnist for the Split weekly Feral Tribune .

Ćosić is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croatians , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Honors

In 2002 Ćosić was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding .

In 2008 he and his translator Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber received the Albatros Literature Prize from the Günter Grass Foundation in Bremen.

The International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz was awarded to Ćosić in 2011.

Works

• How our pianos were repaired . Satires. Suhrkamp ( edition suhrkamp 289), Frankfurt am Main 1968
• Musil's notebook. A novel from Trieste . Droschl, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-85420-368-3
• The role of my family in the world revolution . Rowohlt, Berlin 1994; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-518-39922-5
• Interview on Lake Zurich. ( Intervju na ciriškom jezeru. ) Translated from Serbian by Barbara Antkowiak , Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87134-237-8 . ISBN 3-87134-237-8
• The baroque eye . Essays. Translated from the Serbian by Barbara Antkowiak, with an afterword by Karl-Markus Gauß, Babel-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-928551-23-X
• Bel pace . Novel of the century . Rowohlt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-87134-268-8
• The customs declaration . Suhrkamp (es 2213), Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-12213-4
• The dead. The Berlin of my poems . DAAD , Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89357-095-0
• The weaving . Ludewig, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-9808640-1-4
• 3 miniatures . Private printing. Ludewig, Munich 2002
• The country zero . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-518-41611-1
• 7 poems . Ludewig, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9808640-8-1
• Irena's room . Poems. Folio, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85256-307-0
• The trip to Alaska . Suhrkamp (es 2493), Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12493-2
• The bird class . Prose. Folio, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85256-399-2
• The ironing mouse . Woodcuts by Christian Thanhäuser . Edition Thanhäuser , Ottensheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-900986-67-4
• Alaska! Poems for Lida . Etchings by Wolfgang Petrick . Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-926433-45-9
• Brecht (text German / Serbian). Ludewig, Kirchseeon 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810572-6-3
• At the Ministry of Mommy's Affairs. Stories of all kinds of trades . Folio, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85256-556-9
• A short childhood in Agram. 1932-1937. Translated from the Serbian by Brigitte Döbert . Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling & Co., 2011, ISBN 978-3-89561-585-6
• Breakfast at the Majestic. Belgrade memories . Translated from the Serbian by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber. Munich, Hanser Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23851-0
• Long shadows in Berlin. Translated from the Serbian by Brigitte Döbert. Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling & Co., 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-586-3
• The tutors . Translated from the Serbian by Brigitte Döbert. Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling und Co., 2015, ISBN 978-3-89561-587-0 - honored in 2016 with the Straelener Translator Award of the Kunststiftung NRW and the Award of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016 for translation
• Consul in Belgrade . Novel. A. d. Serb. by Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber. [Orig .: Konsul u Beogradu, Belgrade 2008]. Folio, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-85256-699-3 .

Essays

• In Montenegro. In: Lettre International 79, Winter 2007, pp. 7-11. ISSN  0945-5167

• Donaubaedeker . In: Lettre International 99, Winter 2012, pp. 52-61. ISSN 0945-5167
• Italian trip . In: Lettre International 104, spring 2014, pp. 56–63. ISSN 0945-5167
• The silence of the sea. In: Lettre International 117, summer 2017, pp. 17–24. ISSN  0945-5167
• I, Anastasia. In: Lettre International 118, Fall 2017, 41–42. ISSN  0945-5167

• Odessa . In: Lettre International 120, spring 2018, pp. 90–97. ISSN 0945-5167
• Vaništa Eye. In: Lettre International 124, Spring 2019, pp. 100-104. ISSN  0945-5167
• My descendant . In: Lettre International 125, summer 2019, pp. 71–75. ISSN 0945-5167

literature

• Sanela Memišević: Bora Ćosić as an example of ex-Yugoslav exile literature . Thesis. Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, 2013 ( Online [PDF; 997 kB ]).

• Diana Hitzke: "Because if each of us succeeded in defending his house from his own country, God knows what the country would be left with." On the relationship between rule and subject in Bora Ćosić's Nulta zemlja, in: Mihai-D. Grigore / Radu Harald Dinu / Marc Živojinović (eds.): Rule in Southeast Europe. Cultural and social science perspectives, Göttingen: V&R unipress 2011, pp. 305–324.

Interview:

• Jeans became an everyday phenomenon . In: »1968« in Yugoslavia . Dietz, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8012-4179-7 , pp. 169-174.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bora Ćosić in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bora Cosic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bora Ćosić: Why the poet Peter Handke is not entitled to the Heine Prize . In: Der Tagesspiegel, June 3, 2006
• Interview with Brigitte Döbert about the translation of Die Tutoren on Deutschlandradio Kultur, January 29, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Derk, Denis: Declaration on the common language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is adopted . In: Večernji list . March 28, 2017, ISSN  0350-5006 , p. 6–7 ( vecernji.hr [accessed on May 9, 2019] Serbo-Croatian: Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca .). (Archived on WebCite ( Memento from May 23, 2017 on WebCite ))
2. ↑ Laudation from Fritz Pleitgen ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 156 kB)