Vidosav Stevanović
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June 27, 1942 Cvetojevac (village near Kragujevac), Serbia |
| Occupation | Writer and publicist |
| Nationality | French and Serbian |
Vidosav Stevanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Видосав Стевановић) (born June 27, 1942 in Cvetojevac, Serbia) is a novelist, story writer, poet, playwright and publicist. he has written over thirty literary works, a political biography of Slobodan Milošević, numerous essays and various other pieces of writing. Stevanović used to write for European newspapers such as Le Monde, Liberation, El País and Expressen.
After completing primary and secondary education in Kragujevac he went to study in Belgrade in 1961. Initially he studied dental medicine and then literature. But he quickly left the academic world in order to dedicate himself completely to what he saw as the real literature. I did not consider it as a profession but as a vocation, a skill that replaces religion, politics and real life.
After the publication of his first collection of stories (The Scum of Death, Prosveta, 1969), Stevanović became a prominent figure on the Yugoslav literary scene. His writing also made him a subject of political persecution; he was brought into court for a trial which lasted six years. He was neither released nor condemned: the trial simply expired. During those six years the young writer lived in isolation from the public.
He stopped working on the second book of his novel Nišči. The gloomy atmosphere of that period is transposed in his novel Konstantin Gorča which ended the Kragujevac cycle. Vidosav turned to his family life, and started working on his Belgrade stories and collecting material for his novel The Will. His first book of Belgrade stories appeared in 1978. It attracted considerable attention and provoked a few moderate attacks but could not be entered for any awards as he had been blacklisted. Upset by the premature death of his wife Gordana, Vidosav did not pay attention to such things. Fighting with depression, he worked industriously as an editor, gaining respect in his second job. During that period the assaults on him lessened. He became a member of the management of the Writers Society and played an important role in the process of liberation of the poet G. Đogo. At the beginning of 1982 he accepted the position of chief editor and then director of BIGZ, a publishing house which was about to collapse. Vidosav changed its programs, activated marketing, reanimated pocketbooks, introduced modern commerce conforming to the principle of the new Japanese business philosophy: do not produce for storehouses! In the next five years BIGZ turned into the most active and most successful publishing house in Serbia and among the best in Yugoslavia. It published books and authors that others were unwilling to publish. It becomes the main publisher of dissidents.
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