NIN Award (Award for Best Novel of the Year)
1 appearances
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Edition 55 (2009) Winner
Grozdana Olujić
グロズダナ・オルイチ
Grozdana Olujič
Aliases:
Гроздана Олујић
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1934-08-30 （Erdevik）
- Died
- 2019-03-16 （Belgrade） age 84
- Nationality
- Serbian
- Languages
- Serbian, English
- Residence History
- Belgrade
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Translator, Editor, Critic
- Active Years
- 1957-2019
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology | English Literature | English Department | Master's degree | — | Serbia |
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology
English Literature
/ English Department
Degree:
Master's degree
Country:
Serbia
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | NIN Award | Voices in the Wind | — | NIN | 受賞 |
| — | Great Ivo Andrić Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Zmaj Children Games Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Bora Stanković Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
NIN Award
2009
Work:
Voices in the Wind
Organization:
NIN
Result:
受賞
Great Ivo Andrić Award
Result:
受賞
Zmaj Children Games Award
Result:
受賞
Bora Stanković Award
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Walk to Heaven
1958 NovelHer first novel, released when she was 24, became a bestseller.
YouthJourney
Adaptations
- [Film] Strange Girl / Jovan Živanović (1962)
Wild Seed
1967 NovelOne of her 1960s novels, highly praised in the USA.
WildGrowth
Voices in the Wind
2009 NovelWinner of the NIN Award, Serbia's main literary award.
VoicesWind
Bibliography
- Izlet u nebo (1957)
- Vote for Love (1962)
- Do Not Wake a Sleeping Dog (1964)
- Wild Seed (1967)
- Pearl Rose and Other Fairy Tales (1979)
- Heavenly River and Other Fairy Tales (1984)
- African Violet (1984)
- Star Wanderers (1987)
- The Boy and the Princess (1990)
- Prince of the Cloud (1990)
- Golden Plate and Other Fairy Tales (1998)
- Moon Flower (1998)
- Light Gates (2002)
- The Flying Stone and Other Fairy Tales (2002)
- Snow Flower and Other Fairy Tales (2004)
- The Pillow That Remembered Dreams and Others (2007)
- Voices in the Wind (2009)
- Survive Until Tomorrow (2017)
- They Were Children Like You (2017)
Translations by Author
- Works by Yukio Mishima
- Works by Saul Bellow
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Poetic proseFairy tale elements
- Recurring Motifs
- NatureDreamsChildren
Legacy
Serbian writer whose novels and fairy tale collections have been translated into more than 35 languages, recipient of numerous awards.
Quotes
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Only Serbian literature has its One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Source: Comment by Dina Katan Ben-Cion on Voices in the Wind
Trivia
- Her fairy tale collection The Magic Broom was published in the USSR with 100,000 copies.