Filip David

Filip David (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Давид; born 4 July 1940) is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" (The House of Remembering and Forgetting).[1]

Filip David
David in 2013
Native name
Филип Давид
Born (1940-07-04) July 4, 1940
Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Occupationwriter
LanguageSerbian
NationalitySerbian
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
Notable awardsNIN Award
2014 Kuća sećanja i zaborava

Biography

David was born in 1940 in Kragujevac to a Jewish family. He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts.[2] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the Radio Television of Belgrade.[3] In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in Sarajevo, in then-SFR Yugoslavia. He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milošević.[4] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.[5]

The writer is signatory of the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins within the project Languages and Nationalisms.[6] The declaration is against political separation of four Serbo-Croatian standard variants that leads to a series of negative social, cultural and political phenomena in which linguistic expression is enforced as a criterion of ethno-national affiliation and as a means of political loyalty in successor states of Yugoslavia.[7]

Work

David has written several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, short story collections and novels.[2]

Short story collections:

  • "Bunar u tamnoj šumi" (English: "A Well in a Dark Forrest")
  • "Zapisi o stvarnom i nestvarnom" ("Notes of the real and the unreal")
  • "Princ vatre" ("Fire Prince")
  • "Sabrane i nove priče" ("Collected and New Stories")

Novels:

  • "Hodočasnici neba i zemlje" ("Pilgrims of the Earth and the Sky")
  • "San o ljubavi i smrti" ("A Dream of Love and Death")
  • "Kuća sećanja i zaborava" ("The House of Memory and Oblivion",[8] also translated as "The House of Remembering and Forgetting"[9])

Books of essays:

  • "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" ("Fragments from Dark Times")
  • "Jesmo li čudovišta" ("Are We Monsters")
  • "Svetovi u haosu" ("Worlds in Chaos")

References
  1. "Filip David dobitnik 61.Ninove nagrade" [Filip David Winner of the 61. NIN Prize]. Vecernje novosti. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. Radovanović, Rade (8 February 2014). "Koliko vredi ljudski život" [How much is worth a human life]. Danas. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. "О холокаусту и последицама" [The Holocaust and the consequences] (in Serbian). Politika. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. "Filip David: Beogradom sada šeta oko tri stotine potencijalnih ratnih zločinaca" [Filip David: Around three hundred potential war criminals walk in Belgrade now] (in Serbo-Croatian). Oslobođenje. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. "Filip David" (in Serbian). Laguna. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  7. Jezici i nacionalizmi, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
  8. Knjizara.com: The House of Memory and Oblivion
  9. Peter Owen Publishers: The House of Remembering and Forgetting
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