Oskar Davičo

Oskar Davičo was born in 1909 in Šabac, into a Jewish family; his father, an accountant, was a socialist. Expelled from secondary school for a magazine directed against religion, he spent two years in Paris, then obtained his degree in French at Belgrade in 1930 and taught at a secondary school. A member of the Belgrade surrealist group and a communist, he was convicted in 1932 and remained in prison until 1937; interned by the Italians during the war, he joined the partisans in 1943. The only writer to have received the NIN Prize three times, he died in Belgrade in 1989.

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• NovelПесмаOskar Davičo · 1952not translated into EnglishLiterature