Milovan Danojlić


Milovan Danojlić is a Serbian writer.

Biography

He was lecturer on Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Poitiers from 1977–78.
Danojlić was selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist-in-residence at the UMass Amherst from 1980–81.
In 1982, he was a founding member of the Committee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom, together with Biljana Jovanović, Dragoslav Mihailović and others. Since 1984, he alternately lived as freelance writer in Paris and Belgrade, and worked as occasional freelance associate at Radio France. In 1989, he was a member of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party, which was the first Yugoslav opposition and non-communist party since 1945.
He has published more than 70 books of fiction and poetry in the Serbian language. His most famous books are: Neka vrsta cirkusa ; Lične stvari - ogledi o sebi i o drugima and Balada o siromaštvu.
He has been a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2000, and president of the Serbian Literary Guild since 2013.
Danojlić is married to Sanja Bošković, and he is father of two sons.

Works