Petar Džadžić

Petar Džadžić (Bitola, 18 September 1929 – Belgrade, 31 July 1996), Serbian literary critic, corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Born in Bitola, Džadžić graduated and got his PhD in Philological Faculty of Belgrade University with a subject on Ivo Andrić (on whom he wrote extensively during his career). His first literary criticisms appeared in late 1950s. He favored new, modernist flows in Serbian literature. He was editor in chief of students' magazine Vidici and later on a founder of the highly influential literary magazine Delo. He wrote his criticisms for NIN, Politika and Belgrade state TV (RTB). Džadžić later worked as an editor in Prosveta publishing house.[1] Since 1994 he was a corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[2] He won several prestigious awards including the October Prize (1965).

Reference

  1. ↑ Танјуг. "Na današnji dan: Preminuo Petar DŽadžić". Нова српска политичка мисао.
  2. ↑ "Члан САНУ". sanu.ac.rs.
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