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Danilo Kiš

ダニロ・キシュ

Danilo Kiš

Aliases: Dániel Kiss

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1935-02-22 （Subotica）
Died
1989-10-15 （Paris, France） age 54
Nationality
Yugoslav, Serbian
Languages
Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian
Religion
Eastern Orthodox Church Baptized in 1939
Residence History
Subotica → Novi Sad → Kerkabarabás → Cetinje → Belgrade → Paris

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Short story writer, Essayist, Translator, Poet
Active Years
1953-1989
Affiliations
University of Strasbourg
Influenced By
James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ivo Andrić, Miroslav Krleža

Education

University of Belgrade
Faculty of Philology / Comparative Literature
Degree: 学士
Period: 1954-1958
Year of Graduation: 1958
Country: Yugoslavia
First student to receive a degree in comparative literature

Awards

NIN Award
1972
Work: Hourglass
Organization: NIN
Result: 受賞
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1986
Organization: French Ministry of Culture
Result: 受賞
Andrić Prize
1983
Work: Enciklopedija mrtvih
Organization: Ivo Andrić Foundation
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hourglass

1972 Novel

Semi-autobiographical novel about childhood memories and the author's father.

ChildhoodHolocaustFatherhood
Adaptations
  • [Film] Fövenyóra / Szabolcs Tolnai (2008)
Translations
  • English translation available

Bibliography

  • The Attic
  • Psalm 44
  • Garden, Ashes
  • Early Sorrows
  • Hourglass
  • A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
  • The Encyclopedia of the Dead

Adaptations

  • Film adaptation of Hourglass

Translations by Author

  • Translations of French books into Serbo-Croatian

Translations of Works

  • Translated into English, French, and many others

Style & Themes

Literary Style
From realism to documentary styleFragmented narrative influenced by BorgesMythic elements
Recurring Motifs
Father's disappearanceHolocaust memoriesCritique of StalinismEncyclopedia of the dead

Health

  • Lung cancer
    1986-1989
    Died in 1989

Legacy

Yugoslav literary giant known for autobiographical elements and documentary style.

Archives

  • Adligat museum in Belgrade

In Popular Culture

  • Featured on Serbian and Montenegrin stamps

Trivia

  • Involved in plagiarism controversy
  • Friend of Susan Sontag
  • Father murdered in Auschwitz
  • Saved from Holocaust by baptism