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Mirko Kovač

ミルコ・コヴァチ

Mirko Kovač

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1938-12-26 (Petrovići near Nikšić, Montenegro)
Died
2013-08-19 (Rovinj, Croatia) age 74
Nationality
Croatian, Serbian
Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Residence History
Belgrade, Serbia → Zagreb, Croatia → Rovinj, Croatia

Career

Occupations
novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist
Active Years
1962-2013
Affiliations
Crnogorski književni list, Council for Standardization of Montenegrin Language

Education

Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television
Department of Dramaturgy
Country: Serbia

Awards

NIN Award
1978
Work: Vrata od utrobe
Organization: NIN
Result: 受賞
Tucholsky Award
1993
Organization: Swedish PEN Center
Result: 受賞
Herder Award
1995
Category: 文学
Result: 受賞
Meša Selimović Award
2007
Result: 受賞
Vladimir Nazor Award
2008
Work: City in the Mirror
Result: 受賞
Trinaestojulska nagrada
2008
Result: 受賞
Kiklop Award
2012
Category: 生涯業績
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Vrata od utrobe

1978 Novel

Complex post-modernist narrative techniques overlapping visions of grandfather's Herzegovina and spiritual dilemmas.

Post-modernismReligionSecularism
Translations
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Hungarian
  • Swedish

Bibliography

  • Gubilište (1962)
  • Moja sestra Elida (1965)
  • Životopis Malvine Trifković (1971)
  • Ruganje s dušom (1976)
  • Vrata od utrobe (1978)
  • Uvod u drugi život (1983)
  • Kristalne rešetke (1995)
  • Grad u zrcalu (2007)
  • Vrijeme koje se udaljava (2013)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Post-modernist narrative techniques
Recurring Motifs
Herzegovinian landscapesSpiritual dilemmas

Legacy

Influential Croatian and Serbian writer, multiple awards, works translated into several languages.