Filip David
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| Native name | Филип Давид |
| Born | 4 July 1940 |
| Died | 14 April 2025 (aged 84) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Serbian |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Notable awards | NIN Award 2014 Kuća sećanja i zaborava |
Filip David (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Давид; 4 July 1940 – 14 April 2025) was a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 1987, he was awarded the Andrić Prize for his short story collection Princ Vatre,[1] and in 2015 he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel Kuća sećanja i zaborava ("The House of Remembering and Forgetting").[2]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]David was born on 4 July 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 Kragujevac massacre committed by occupation forces during the World War II in Yugoslavia.[3] He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts.[4] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade.[5] In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in Sarajevo, in then-SFR Yugoslavia. He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milošević.[6] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.[7]
The writer was a signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins within the project Languages and Nationalisms.[8] The declaration opposes the political separation of four Serbo-Croatian standard variants that leads to a series of negative social, cultural and political phenomena in which linguistic expression is enforced as a criterion of ethno-national affiliation and as a display of political loyalty in the successor states of Yugoslavia.[9]
David died on 14 April 2025, at the age of 84.[10]
Work
[edit | edit source]David wrote several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, short story collections and novels.[4]
Short story collections:
- "Bunar u tamnoj šumi" (English: "A Well in a Dark Forrest")
- "Zapisi o stvarnom i nestvarnom" ("Notes of the real and the unreal")
- "Princ vatre" ("Fire Prince")
- "Sabrane i nove priče" ("Collected and New Stories")
Novels:
- "Hodočasnici neba i zemlje" ("Pilgrims of the Earth and the Sky")
- "San o ljubavi i smrti" ("A Dream of Love and Death")
- "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" ("The House of Memory and Oblivion",[11] also translated as "The House of Remembering and Forgetting"[12])
Books of essays:
- "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" ("Fragments from Dark Times")
- "Jesmo li čudovišta" ("Are We Monsters")
- "Svetovi u haosu" ("Worlds in Chaos")
References
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- ^ Peter Owen Publishers: The House of Remembering and Forgetting
External links
[edit | edit source]- Filip David at IMDb
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