Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić was born in Belgrade in 1929, into a family that had counted writers for six generations. A graduate in literature in Belgrade in 1954, a doctor in literary history in Zagreb in 1966, he studied Serbian literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, from the baroque to pre-romanticism, and taught in Novi Sad from 1974 to 1982, then in Belgrade. A poet, then a short-story writer, he came to the novel only at fifty-four and became one of the most translated Serbian writers. He died in Belgrade in 2009.

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• NovelDictionary of the KhazarsХазарски речникMilorad Pavić · 1984Literature