Borislav Pekić
| Borislav Pekić | |
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| Born |
4 February 1930 Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | 2 July 1992 (aged 62) London, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Ethnicity | Serb |
| Spouse | Ljiljana |
Borislav Pekić (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислав Пекић, pronounced [bɔ̂rislav pɛ̂kit͡ɕ]) (born in Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, February 4, 1930; died in London, United Kingdom, July 2, 1992) was a Serbian political activist and writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. He was also one of the founding members of the Democratic Party in Serbia.
He is considered one of the most important Serbian literary figures of the 20th century.
Borislav Pekić spent his childhood in different cities of Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia. He graduated from high school in 1945 in Belgrade and shortly afterwards was arrested with the accusation of belonging to the secret association "Yugoslav Democratic Youth" and sentenced to fifteen years of prison. During the time in prison he conceived many of the ideas later developed in his major novels. He was released after five years and in 1953 began studying experimental psychology at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, although he never earned a degree.
In 1958 he married Ljiljana Glišić, the niece of Milan Stojadinović, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935–1939) and a year later their daughter Aleksandra was born. 1958 marked also the year when Pekić wrote his first of over twenty original film scripts for the major film studios in Yugoslavia, among which Dan četrnaesti ("The Fourteenth Day") represented Yugoslavia at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
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