Predrag Matvejevic
Predrag Matvejević (born November 7, 1932 in Mostar , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † February 2, 2017 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian writer and literary scholar of Croatian-Ukrainian origin who lived and published in France and Italy since the Yugoslav wars. He had Croatian and Italian citizenship.
Life
Predrag Matvejević was born in 1932 to a Ukrainian father and a Croatian mother in Mostar, Herzegovina. In the 1960s he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris . Following his doctorate in 1967, he taught there for years as a professor of comparative literature. He has attracted international attention since the 1970s with his open letters in which he campaigned for persecuted dissidents in the real socialist countries. Since 1994 Matvejević lived in Rome, where he taught Slavic Studies at the Sapienza University .
As an author he has received numerous awards. He was vice president of the international PEN club .
Works
He has published the following in German translation:
- The Mediterranean . Ammann, Zurich 1993. ISBN 3-250-10188-5
- The world "ex" . Ammann, Zurich 1997. ISBN 3-250-10307-1
- Mediterranea . Knesebeck, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-89660-014-1
- The other Venice . Wieser, Klagenfurt 2007. ISBN 978-3-85129-653-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tajana Vlasic: Umro per Predrag Matvejević . Telegram, February 2, 2017, accessed February 5, 2017 (Croatian).
- ↑ Snježana Kordić : kozmopolit o jeziku . In: Književna republika, 11, numbers 4–6. Zagreb, 2013, ISSN 1334-1057 , p. 94, accessed on February 5, 2017 (interview with Predrag Matvejević, Croatian; pdf, 485 kB).
Web links
- Literature by and about TYP Literature by and about in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official Homepage (Italian)
- Carl Wilhelm Macke: Predrag Matvejevic in portrait . CULTurMAG, August 1, 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matvejevic, Predrag |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and literary scholar of Croatian-Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mostar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 2017 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |