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Bora Ćosić

Serbian writer · Serbia · On the map · Writers · Born 1932 · age 94

Bora Ćosić is a former Yugoslav and Croatian novelist, essayist, translator, public intellectual, and dissident. He wrote about 50 books, as well as several theater plays, which were played with great success in the Belgrade Atelje 212.

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2016Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRWAward2011Stefan Heym International AwardAward2008Albatros LiteraturpreisAward2002Leipzig Book Award for European UnderstandingAward1969NIN PrizeAward1932Born5 April 1932

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Straelen Translator’s Prize provided by Kunststiftung NRW2016
Stefan Heym International Award2011
Albatros Literaturpreis2008
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding2002
NIN Prize1969

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For the novel The Role of My Family in the World Revolution, he received the NIN Award for Novel of the Year in 1970. Ćosić strongly denounced the rise of Serbian nationalism in the 1990s and the politics of Slobodan Milošević. Born in 1932 in Zagreb, he lived in Belgrade from 1937 to 1992, when he moved to Berlin.

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Serbia
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
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Born 1932 · age 94

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In the same film or series as Bora

Ljubiša SamardžićAlso in Days (1963)Pavle VuisićAlso in The Descent Upon Drvar (1963)Slobodan PerovićAlso in Gluttony (1972)Rade MarkovićAlso in The Role of My Family in the World Revolution (1971)