Slobodan Selenić
{{Short description|Serbian writer, literary critic, dramatist, academic and university professor}}
{{Infobox person
| name =Slobodan Selenić
| image = Slobodan Selenić tabla.JPG
| caption = A plaque on the house where Selenić lived
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|6|7}}
| birth_place = Pakrac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1995|10|27|1933|6|7}}
| death_place = Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
| nationality = Serbian
| alma_mater = Faculty of Dramatic arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
| occupation = University professor, writer
| awards = NIN Award, Sterija Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.biografija.org/knjizevnost/slobodan-selenic/|title=Slobodan Selenić Biografija|date=2018-06-11|website=Biografija.org|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-08-27}}
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Slobodan Selenić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Селенић; 7 June 1933 – 27 October 1995) was a Serbian writer, literary critic, dramatist, academic{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=1255,|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225751/http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=1255,|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-04|title=Члан САНУ|date=2016-03-04|access-date=2019-08-27}} and university professor of 20th century literature.{{Cite web|url=https://kultivisise.rs/slobodan-selenic-kritikom-do-umerenosti/|title=Slobodan Selenić – kritikom do umerenosti|last=Mladenović|first=Marija|date=2017-04-05|website=Kultiviši se|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-27}}
Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.{{cite book |author= Krešimir Georgijević|editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |language=sh |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) |page=474 }}
One of the main themes in his work is the destruction of the civic class from Kingdom of Yugoslavia, its values and later destruction with the formation of the second Yugoslavia. He became the director of Avala Film at the age of 29.{{Cite web|url=https://pulse.rs/prevremeni-zaborav/|title=Превремени заборав или Селенићев Град у корову|date=2016-04-30|website=Internet portal za umetnost i kulturu "P.U.L.S.E"|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-27}} The Slobodan Selenić Award is annually awarded in his honour for the best graduate work at his alma mater.{{Cite web|url=https://www.narodnopozoriste.rs/moje-nagrade|title=МОЈЕ НАГРАДЕ|last=Beogradu|first=IT Centar Narodnog pozorišta u|website=Народно позориште у Београду|access-date=2019-09-05}}
Selenić won the NIN literary prize in 1980 and was Belgrade's Poet Laureate.Laurence Mitchell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0-Dd1-Rg4bUC&dq=selenic+poet+laureate&pg=PA49 Serbia], Chalfont St Peter, Bucks.: Bradt Travel Guides, 2013, 4th edition, p. 49. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
Works
His works include:{{Cite web|url=http://www.vbs.rs/scripts/cobiss?id=2302568046133385|title=COBISS/OPAC|website=www.vbs.rs|access-date=2019-09-05}}
- Avangardna drama, anthology (1964)
- Angažman u dramskoj formi (1965)
- Memoari Pere Bogalja (1968)
- Dramski pravci XX vijeka (1971)
- Pismo glava (1972)
- Antologija savremene srpske drame, anthology (1977)
- Prijatelji (1980)
- Kosančićev vijenac 7 (1982)
- Očevi i oci (1985);{{Cite web|url=https://pulse.rs/interkulturalno-iskustvo-u-romanu-ocevi-i-oci/|title=Интеркултурално искуство у роману "Очеви и оци" Слободана Селенића|date=2016-04-15|website=Internet portal za umetnost i kulturu "P.U.L.S.E"|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-27}} English translation, Fathers and Forefathers, Ellen Elias-Bursac, tr. (The Harvill Press, 2003)
- Ruženje naroda (1987)
- Timor mortis (1989)
- Knez Pavle (1991)
- Ubistvo s predumišljajem, novel and screenplay for film (1993);{{Cite web|url=https://kultivisise.rs/slobodan-selenic-kritikom-do-umerenosti/|title=Slobodan Selenić – kritikom do umerenosti|last=Mladenović|first=Marija|date=2017-04-05|website=Kultiviši se|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-27}} English translation, Premeditated Murder, Jelena Petrovic, tr. (The Harvill Press, 1997)
- Iskorak u stvarnost (1995)
- Dramski pravci XX vijeka (2003)
- Malajsko ludilo (2003)
- Dramsko doba (2005)
References
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Category:20th-century Serbian writers
Category:Serbian literary critics
Category:Serbian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Serbian non-fiction writers
Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts alumni