Svetozar Vlajković
| Svetozar Vlajković Светозар Влајковић |
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5 January 1938 Čubura, Belgrade, Serbia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Serbian |
| Nationality | Serbian |
Svetozar Vlajković (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Влајковић, pronounced [sʋeːtozar ʋlajkoʋitɕ]), born in a Belgrade slum area called Čubura on 5 January 1938, is a Serbian writer.
Svetozar Vlajković spent his childhood years in house arrest – his hometown was occupied by the Germans. He did not learn much at elementary school, high school and university. Therefore, he had to educate himself and focused on studying philosophy, psychology, literature and art history as much as he could.
Svetozar graduated from the Faculty of Law at Belgrade University although his desire was to become a medical doctor. Nevertheless, he would find out later that his books had healing power on some people, so his long-standing wish was fulfilled in a way.
Life in Čubura brought him a fair share of bad experiences with people, so he escaped into romanticism.
Thanks to playing jazz on his guitar at dances he scraped by to buy cigarettes, but he was immersing progressively into imaginary worlds in order to bear this so-called real one.
He married very young, out of love. However, he got divorced as a middle-aged man, also out of love – towards truth. His daughter from this marriage taught him how to be a child, so he started writing radio plays for children.
Whenever he had a chance, he starred or played support roles in films in order to enhance his tolerance towards nonsense of this world.
At the age of 44, Svetozar Vlajković met his father who was being kept at distance from him for reasons known only to mothers from this part of the world. His father was a writer, and that is the worst possible recommendation for being welcomed into a society of the mediocre and illiterate such as were the residents of Čubura.
He worked as a court reporter for the daily newspaper Borba. There he realized that he was not living in a law-abiding society, that theory taught at university and judicial practice are two different things.
He came to despise daily journalism, so he found a post in the Art Department of Radio Beograd. Before Third Programme was launched in 1964, he had been invited to do radio shows on philosophy and sciences. After 6 years, he was demoted to write jingles for a noodle factory because his views were ideologically unsound for the theoretical level of thinking.
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