Writer and professor Filip David passed away today after a long and serious illness, N1 has confirmed.
Filip David was born in Kragujevac in 1940. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology and the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television.
He was a writer, long-time editor of the Drama Program of Television Belgrade, and professor of dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
He was one of the founders of Independent Writers, an association founded in Sarajevo in 1989, which gathered the most important writers from all parts of the former Yugoslavia, then the founder of the Belgrade Circle (1990), the Writers’ Forum, and a member of the international literary association “Group 99”, founded at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt.
He wrote several television dramas and screenplays, N1 recalls.
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He published the books of short stories The Well in the Dark Forest, Notes on the Real and the Unreal, and Prince of Fire, the novels Pilgrims of Heaven and Earth, The Dream of Love and Death, and The House of Remembrance and Forgetting, and the books of essays Fragments from Dark Times, Are We Monsters, Worlds in Chaos.
With Mirko Kovač, he published the Book of Letters 1992-1995.
He is the winner of many awards for prose, including the “Mladost” Award, the “Milan Rakić” Award, BIGZ’s and Prosveta’s awards for the best book of the year, the NIN Award, and the Andrić Award.
His novels have been translated into several languages, and his short stories are included in about twenty anthologies.
As a dramaturge and screenwriter, he worked on the films: Occupation in 26 Pictures, The Fall of Italy, Who’s Singing Over There?, Cabaret Balkan, Special Treatment, Pavilion 6, A Winter’s Night Dream, Optimists, and others.
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