Milovan Danojlić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Milovan Danojlić

Serbian writer

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1937

Place of Birth: Ivanovci, Ljig, Kolubara District, Serbia

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Milovan Danojlić

  • Milovan Danojlic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ????????; born 3 July 1937) is a Serbian writer. He was lecturer on Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Poitiers from 1977–78.Danojlic was selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist-in-residence at the UMass Amherst from 1980–81.In 1982, he was a founding member of the Committee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom (Odbor za zaštitu umetnicke slobode), together with Biljana Jovanovic, Dragoslav Mihailovic and others.
  • Since 1984, he alternately lived as freelance writer in Paris and Belgrade, and worked as occasional freelance associate at Radio France.
  • In 1989, he was a member of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party (together with his writer colleagues Borislav Pekic, Gojko Ðogo and Dušan Vukajlovic), which was the first Yugoslav opposition and non-communist party since 1945.He has published more than 70 books of fiction and poetry in the Serbian language.
  • His most famous books are: Neka vrsta cirkusa (Some kind of circus); Licne stvari - ogledi o sebi i o drugima (Personal things - reflections on yourself and others) and Balada o siromaštvu (Balad on poverty). He has been a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2000, and president of the Serbian Literary Guild since 2013.Danojlic is married to Sanja Boškovic (born in Sarajevo, living in France since 1988), and he is father of two sons (born 1992 and 1993).

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