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Miodrag Bulatović

ミオドラグ・ブラトビッチ

Miodrag Bulatović

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1930-02-20 (Okladi (now part of Bijelo Polje Municipality))
Died
1991-03-15 (Igalo) age 61
Nationality
Yugoslav
Languages
Serbian
Residence History
Northeastern Montenegro

Career

Occupations
novelist, playwright, journalist
Active Years
1956-1991
Memberships
Association of Writers of Yugoslavia

Education

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
Philosophy
Country: Yugoslavia

Awards

Serbian Writers Union Award
1956
Work: Stop the Danube
Organization: Serbian Writers Union
Result: 受賞
NIN Award
1975
Work: People with Four Fingers
Organization: NIN
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards

1959 novel

A novel set in his homeland of northeastern Montenegro, translated into more than twenty foreign languages.

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Hero on a Donkey

1967 war novel

A dark hot nightmare of a war novel, first published abroad and only four years later in Yugoslavia.

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People with Four Fingers

1975 novel

An insight into the émigré's life. Winner of the NIN Award.

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Bibliography

  • Stop the Danube (1956)
  • The Wolf and the Bell (1958)
  • The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards (1959)
  • Godot has Arrived (1966)
  • Hero on a Donkey (1967)
  • The War Was Better (1968)
  • People with Four Fingers (1975)
  • The Fifth Finger (1977)
  • Gullo gullo (1981)
  • Death's Lover (1990)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
grotesqueblack humor
Recurring Motifs
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Legacy

Serbian writer known for demons, evil, the grotesque, and black humor. Known for his fierce Serbian nationalism, which contributed to the dissolution of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia. A library in Rakovica, Belgrade is named after him.

In Popular Culture

  • A library in Rakovica, Belgrade is named after him.

Trivia

  • Known for his fierce Serbian nationalism, earning enmity from other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia.
  • He was an official of Serbia's Socialist Party.