Predrag Matvejević

Predrag Matvejević

Predrag Matvejević on Subversive Festival
Born (1932-10-07)7 October 1932
Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Predrag Matvejević (born 1932) is a Bosnian Croat writer known for his writing as well as for his political activism. His book Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape has been a bestseller in many European countries, and has been translated into more than 20 languages.[1]

Biography

Predrag Matvejević was born in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time Kingdom of Yugoslavia) to a Croat mother and a Russian father.[2] He attended Gimnazija "Aleksa Šantić" in Mostar before enrolling in the University of Sarajevo.

Matvejević emigrated to France in 1991, but from 1994 to 2008 he lived in Italy. He became a naturalised Italian citizen.

Matvejević taught at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (New Sorbonne) in Paris as well as in the Sapienza in Rome.[3] He is the past President and now a lifelong honorary Vice-President of the PEN International. Additionally, he is a member of the World Political Forum founded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

He is a member of the advisory board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.[4]

Conviction for defamation

In November 2001, Predrag Matvejević published an essay-length article titled "Our Talibans" in Jutarnji list. In that article he accused some writers of warmongering during the Yugoslav Wars, among them Mile Pešorda, a Croatian writer. Mile Pešorda filed a lawsuit against him and the trial was started in March 2003. On November 2, 2005 Matvejević was found guilty on the charge of defamation. He was sentenced to five months' probation and ordered to publish the verdict at his own cost in Jutarnji list and to pay 5,000 kuna (circa $1000) of trial costs. Matvejević did not appeal. He made a statement that an appeal would signify an acknowledgment of the verdict and the ones who issued it. On December 20, 2005, the verdict was upheld by an appeals court.[5][6][7]

Works (incomplete)

(Most of his books have appeared in Croatian, Italian and French editions)

Notes

  1. ↑ Pleše, Mladen (20 February 2016). "Ugledni talijanski književnici predlažu Predraga Matvejevića za Nobelovu nagradu za književnost: Šezdesetak književnika potpisalo je i objavilo prijedlog". Telegram (in Serbo-Croatian) (Zagreb). Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Predrag Matvejevic' Official Homepage". Giardini.sm. 2005-11-05. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  3. ↑ Kordić, Snježana (2013). "Kozmopolit o jeziku" [Cosmopolitan about language] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian) (Zagreb) 11 (4-6): 94. ISSN 1334-1057. OCLC 70236267. ZDB-ID 2122129-7. Archived from the original on 10 August 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2015. (NSK). (CEEOL).
  4. ↑ O Novom Plamenu (Retrieved on 2008-10-02).
  5. ↑ Piše: utorak, 20.12.2005. 12:43 (2005-12-20). "Presuda Predragu Matvejeviću postala pravomoćnom - Vijesti.net". Index.hr. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  6. ↑ "Legalis - hrvatski pravni portal". Legalis.hr. 2005-12-20. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  7. ↑ Pravosudni autogol (Serbo-Croatian)
  8. ↑ Written in Serbo-Croatian, this book has been reprinted many times and translated into more than twenty languages

Sources

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