Sreten Ugričić

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Sreten Ugričić at the Leipzig Book Fair 2011

Sreten Ugričić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Сретен Угричић , often just Sreten ; * 1961 in Herceg Novi , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian writer and was the head of the Serbian National Library in Belgrade from 2001 to January 20, 2012 .

Life

After graduating from elementary and middle school in Belgrade, Ugričić studied philosophy at Belgrade University . Between 1992 and 1997 he worked as an assistant at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Pristina . He had already started to publish his own works in the 1980s. From 1994 to 2001 he also worked in Pristina and Budapest for the Open Society Institute .

After the fall of Slobodan Milošević , Sreten Ugričić was appointed director of the national library in 2001. In the following decade he initiated an extensive modernization of the institution. He also continued to work as a writer; In 2011 he was one of the authors who represented the host country Serbia at the Leipzig Book Fair . Since 2002 Ugričić was also a member of the Yugoslav UNESCO Commission.

On January 20, 2012, he was removed from office by the Serbian government after he signed an appeal by the Serbian Writers' Forum to end the media campaign against the Montenegrin author Andrej Nikolaidis . He had previously asked in a satirical text on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Republika Srpska whether it would not be a “civilizational act” to use dynamite to eliminate the leadership of the “ genocide- based” Bosnian entity. He was referring to the discovery of explosives on the eve of the festivities in Banja Luka . Thereupon the Serbian print media started a campaign against Nikolaidis, whom they branded as a "terrorist" and "traitor". Sreten Ugričić did not comment on the Nikolaidis text as such, but only demanded, together with other literary professionals, that the media campaign be stopped. The press immediately accused him of supporting the assassination of President Tadić , who was also present in Banja Luka, and called for his dismissal. This came after Interior Minister Ivica Dačić publicly announced that Ugričić could “write whatever he wants, not in his office, but in prison”.

From December 2012 to May 2013 Sreten Ugričić was Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation in Zürich.

Since May 2016 Sreten Ugričić has been a research associate with Boris Previsić and a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of the University of Lucerne (GSL).

Works (selection)

  • Upoznavanje sa veštinom. Stories; Književna omladina Srbije, Belgrade 1985.
  • Neponovljivo neponovljivo. Vidici, Belgrade 1987.
  • Maja i yes i Maja. Novel; Prometej, Novi Sad 1993.
  • Strance (together with Branislav Dimitrijević). Monograph on the painter Mileta Prodanović; Konkordija, Vršac 1996.
  • Infinitive. Study; Stubovi culture, Belgrade 1997.
  • Bog, jezik i druge priče. Stories; Stubovi culture, Belgrade 1997.
  • Neznanom junaku. Novel; Laguna, 2010.
  • The assassination , from the Serbian by Mascha Dabić, in: die horen , 254, 2014, pp. 386–393

Web links

Commons : Sreten Ugričić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Biography on biblioteke.org.rs
  2. Miranda Jakiša: Hunting the Serbian way. National librarian Sreten Ugricic killed. In: Der Tagesspiegel from February 1, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  3. Andrej Nikolaidis: Šta per ostalo od velike Serbia. e-novine, January 11, 2011
  4. Andreas Ernst: Don't feel like discussing. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 27, 2012
  5. ^ Website Writers in Residence Zurich