Milisav Savić


Milisav Savić is a Serbian writer and awarded novelist.

Education

Attended elementary school in Raška and high school in Novi Pazar. Later, he graduated from University of Belgrade, where he majored in Yugoslav and world literature in 1969. He attained his M. A. and PhD. from the same university, the latter with the dissertation "Memoir and Autobiographical Prose about Serb-Turkish Wars 1876-78".Milisav Savic#cite note-2|

Career

Savić was the first editor in chief of the literary periodical "Knjizevna rec", 1972/1977. In 1980, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the leading literary newspapers "Književne novine". In 1983 he became the main editor in the largest publishing house in Serbia, "Prosveta". In 2005/2008 he worked in Rome in The Embassy of Serbia as minister adviser.
After his return from Rome, he worked as a professor of literature at the State University of Novi Pazar.
In 1977 and 1978, he taught Serb-Croatian at London University, later at SUNY, Albany, the University of Florence.Milisav Savic#cite note-3|
Savić is the editor and translator of several anthologies of foreign literature into Serbian and the writer of three collections of essays.

Works

Short-stories collections