Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar

Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar (* 1951 in Novi Sad / Serbia (formerly Yugoslavia )) is a Serbian author of prose , radio plays and plays . She also works as a journalist and critic .

Life

Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar studied Yugoslav and general literature at the University of Novi Sad , which was followed by work as a writer and editor for various radio, television and magazines. Since 1981 she has been writing radio plays, plays, short stories and novels.

In 1999 she worked as a visiting professor for “Creative Writing” at the University of Novi Sad. In 2002 she received a scholarship from the Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Jokić Kaspar received public attention when she was sentenced to six months in prison in 2004 after she had claimed in a newspaper column that Miroslav Savic, a former medical supervisor of the paramilitary “ Red Berets ” unit, was involved in the murder of Zoran Đinđić should have been involved, would also have served as a sniper there. This judgment was generally understood as a model judgment that was a warning to Serbian journalists and pointed to totalitarian tendencies of the state.

She lives and works in Novi Sad.

Literary work

Ljiljana Jokić Kaspar has published several novels , short stories and plays . Translations have appeared in English, Italian and German, among others. Her play Four Little Women based on her novel of the same name (original title: Cetiri Male Žene ) was published in German translation in 2007 , which deals with the collapse of the Yugoslav state using the example of a family in wartime.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41706.htm
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