Filip David

Filip David (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Давид) is a Serbian author of essays, dramas, short stories and novels and a screenwriter. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for the Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" (House of memory and oblivion).^[1]

Biography

David was born in 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. 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.^[2] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade.^[3] 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 Cirlce" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milošević.^[4] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.^[5]

Work

David has written several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, short story collections and novels.^[2]

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" ("House of memory and oblivion")

Books of essays:

• "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" ("Fragments from Dark Times")
• "Jesmo li čudovišta" ("Are We Monsters")
• "Svetovi u haosu" ("Worlds in Chaos")

References

1. "Filip David dobitnik 61.Ninove nagrade" [Filip David Winner of the 61. NIN Prize]. Vecernje novosti. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
2. Radovanović, Rade (8 February 2014). "Koliko vredi ljudski život" [How much is worth a human life]. Danas. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
3. "О холокаусту и последицама" [The Holocaust and the consequences] (in Serbian). Politika. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
4. "Filip David: Beogradom sada šeta oko tri stotine potencijalnih ratnih zločinaca" [Filip David: Around three hundred potential war criminals walk in Belgrade now] (in Serbo-Croatian). Oslobođenje. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
5. "Filip David" (in Serbian). Laguna. Retrieved 19 January 2015.