Slobodan Prosperov Novak

Slobodan Prosperov Novak (born April 11, 1951 in Belgrade ) is a Croatian literary historian , comparative writer , journalist and theater scholar .

Life

Prosperov Novak studied comparative literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb from 1973 and received his doctorate in 1978. He worked as a journalist for Vjesnik u srijedu . In 1988 he became a full professor at his alma mater and taught Slavic Philology at the University of Rome (1981-1984) and South Slavic Studies at Yale University . From 1990 to 1992 he was advisor to the minister of culture and editor of the first 39 issues of Vijenac magazine , as well as Lettre internationale and Cicero and for several years editor of the bilingual magazine Most / The Bridge. As President of the Croatian PEN , he organized the 59th World Congress of PEN in Dubrovnik in 1993 and in 1998 founded the Mediterranean Institute Grga Novak in Hvar . Prosperov Novak taught Croatian literature at the University of Split and literature at the Academy of Performing Arts at the University of Zagreb.

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SURNAME	Prosperov Novak, Slobodan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian literary historian, comparativeist, journalist and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belgrade