Ljubomir Simović
Ljubomir Simović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Симовић; born 2 December 1935) is a Serbian poet, short story writer, playwright, and scriptwriter of TV dramas and movies.
He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works have been translated in more than twenty languages.
Ljubomir Simović | |
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 Simović signing a book in 2017 | |
| Born | 2 December 1935 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
Biography
Simović was born in the town of Užice, where he finished Gymnasium and Teacher's school. He graduated at Faculty of Philology(Department of History of Serbian and Yugoslav Literature) at University of Belgrade. He writes poems, novels, essays, literary criticism, but he is best known for his plays. He wrote 4 plays: Hasanaginica, A Miracle in Sargan (Serbian: Čudo u Šarganu), Traveling theatre Sopalovic (Serbian: Putujuće pozorište Šopalović) and The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Boj na Kosovu). His works have been translated into almost all European languages and his plays were performed in almost all theatres in Serbia. Also his plays were performed in France, Hungary, Czhez Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, North Macedonia, Canada, Mexico, and Morocco.
In 1996 he published "A chronicle, which is occasionally a novel, or a novel, which is occasionally a chronicle" about his hometown called "Uzice with the Crows" (Serbian: Užice sa vranama).
His selected works have been published in 12 books in 2008.
Works
Awards
- Isidora Sekulić Award
- Sterija Award for Hasanaginica (1975), A Miracle in Sargan (1993) and Traveling theatre Sopalovic (1986)
- Honorable doctor of arts, University of Kragujevac
- Dis Award
- Dositej Obradović Award
- Vasko Popa Award
- Milan Rakić Award
- Desanka Maksimović Award
- Mića Popović Award
- Đorđe Jovanović Award
- Branko Miljković Award
- Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša Award
- Ljubomir Nenadović Award
- Zmaj Award
- Jovan Dučić Award
- October Award
- 7 July Award
- Despot Stefan Lazarević Award
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