Prvoslav Vujčić
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Prvoslav Vujčić 20 July 1960 Požarevac, Serbia |
| Residence | Toronto |
| Occupation | Author |
| Children | 4 |
Prvoslav Vujcic (Serbian pronunciation: [pr̩ʋoslaʋ ʋûjt͡ʃit͡ɕ], Serbian Cyrillic: Првослав Вујчић; born 20 July 1960) is a Canadian writer, poet, translator, columnist and aphorist who has been described as one of the most prominent writers of Serbian origin.
Vujcic was born on 20 July 1960 in Požarevac to father Jefrem and mother Nadežda. In 1975, Vujcic won the Zmaj Award (awarded annually by the Association of Writers of Serbia for the best book of the year) for his collection of poetry titled Pesnik i pesma – the award was presented to him by Desanka Maksimović. In 1977, he visited Canada and the United States for the first time where he met one of his literary influences Charles Bukowski. Vujcic then read and presented his poetry with Bukowski on tour for fourteen days in 1977. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was the leader of the Požarevac section of the Grobari, the supporters group of Partizan Belgrade. In 1983, Vujcic wrote a book of poetry titled Razmišljanja jednog leša which was banned by the Communist government of Yugoslavia by court order in 1983. In 1984, Vujcic was in the Tuzla Prison for seven days (for his writing and criticizing of Yugoslavia's communist regime) where he wrote his second book of poetry titled Kastriranje vetra – also banned by the communist regime.
In 1987, Vujcic moved to Canada. Upon arrival in Canada, he helped raise funds for the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade and the Živojin Mišić Monument in Mionica. On 28 June 1989, Vujcic helped organize the 600th Anniversary Ceremony commemorating the Battle of Kosovo throughout Canada. The Canada Gazette wrote about Vujcic and his beginnings in Canada in a 1989 edition. In 1992, he founded the United Serbs FC soccer club for which he and Mike Stojanovic played (as a child, Vujcic played soccer in the youth categories of FK Železničar Požarevac). During this period, Vujcic was a contributor to Serbian magazine Pogledi. In 1999, he was one of the organizers of the Toronto-based demonstrations against the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro. In terms of the Serbian diaspora, the demonstrations lasted all 78 days only in Toronto.
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