Milorad Pavić

Robert Turi (University of Szeged)

Ed. by John Cox, University of North Dakota
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.7.3: Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian and Montenegrin Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: John Cox (University of North Dakota)

Dates

Born 15 Oct 1929
Died 30 Nov 2009
Activity 1967-2009

Places

Born in Serbia
Active in Serbia

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Poet
Translator

Resources

Pavić's Works

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Milorad Pavić, the erudite Serbian writer, university professor, literary historian, and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (1991-2009), was born on 15 October 1929 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In his internet-based autobiographical sketch, Pavić himself declared that he was born on “the banks of one of the four rivers of Paradise, at 8:30 in the morning, under the sign of Libra (ascendant Scorpio), or, according to the Aztec horoscope, the Snake.” As fiction writer, he was virtually unknown until 1984 when

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brought him an instant worldwide fame. Even before, he had always entertained the idea of being “a writer for two hundred years now” because, as he said, “[l]ong ago, in 1766, a[n ancestor] Pavić…

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Citation: Turi, Robert. "Milorad Pavić". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12695, accessed 23 November 2024.]