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Danilo Kiš

Died in 1989

Danilo Kiš was born in 1935 in Subotica, the son of a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector and of a Montenegrin mother from Cetinje. His father and several of his relatives perished in the Nazi camps; his mother took the children to Hungary, then to Cetinje after the war. The first graduate in comparative literature at Belgrade in 1958, he taught at Strasbourg and then at Bordeaux and translated the French classics. Settled in Paris in 1979, he died there in 1989 and is buried in Belgrade.

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