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Serbian writer, critic and translator (born 1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleksandar Gatalica (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Гаталица; born 1964) is a Serbian writer, critic and translator, best known for his novel The Great War, for which he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year.[1] His works has been translated in more than ten languages.[2]
Aleksandar Gatalica | |
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| Native name | Александар Гаталица |
| Born | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Serbian |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Notable awards | NIN Award 2012 Veliki rat |
Gatalica was born in 1964 in Belgrade, where he graduated world literature with Old Greek at Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. [3]
He worked as editor of the Pages on world literature (Danas daily), editor of Blic knjiga publishing company, editor of Serbian PEN Centre editions, art director of Madlenianum Opera and Theatre and first president of National Library of Serbia Foundation. Gatalica is also noted as editor of several anthologies in Serbian and other languages.
A noted translator, Gatalica translated works of authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and pioneerly translatated great part of ancient poets, such as: Sappho, Mimnermus, Solon, Archilochus, Hipponax and Anacreon.
He has written music critique for many newspapers and published several books of music critique.
In 2016 Gatalica conducted a series of interviews with contemporary Serbian authors for Radio Television of Serbia.
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