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Život, literatura
ZAŠTO PIŠEM?
Pisanje je vokacija, mutacija gena, hromozoma; pisac se postaje kao što se postaje davitelj. Pišem jer ne znam ništa drugo da radim; jer od svega što bih mogao da radim, ovo radim najbolje i (I hope) bolje od drugih. Pisanje je taština. Taština koja mi se ponekad čini manje ništavnom od drugih oblika egzistencije. Pišem, dakle, jer sam nezadovoljan sobom i svetom. I da bih iskazao to nezadovoljstvo. Da bih preživeo!
[Les écrivains répondent: POURQUOI ECRIVEZ-VOUS ? – Paris: Le Journal Libération, 1985]
Pisanje je vokacija, mutacija gena, hromozoma; pisac se postaje kao što se postaje davitelj. Pišem jer ne znam ništa drugo da radim; jer od svega što bih mogao da radim, ovo radim najbolje i (I hope) bolje od drugih. Pisanje je taština. Taština koja mi se ponekad čini manje ništavnom od drugih oblika egzistencije. Pišem, dakle, jer sam nezadovoljan sobom i svetom. I da bih iskazao to nezadovoljstvo. Da bih preživeo!
[Les écrivains répondent: POURQUOI ECRIVEZ-VOUS ? – Paris: Le Journal Libération, 1985]
268 pages
Published January 1, 1990
About the author
Danilo Kiš
80 books493 followersDanilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Kiš (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Kiš (born Dragićević) from Cetinje, Montenegro. During the Second World War, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954.
Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960. In 1962 he published his first two novels, Mansarda and Psalam 44. Kiš received the prestigious NIN Award for his Peščanik ("Hourglass") in 1973, which he returned a few years later, due to a political dispute.
During the following years, Kiš received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry.
He spent most of his life in Paris and working as a lecturer elsewhere in France.
Kiš was married to Mirjana Miočinović from 1962 to 1981. After their separation, he lived with Pascale Delpech until his early death from lung cancer in Paris.
A film based on Peščanik (Fövenyóra) directed by the Hungarian Szabolcs Tolnai is currently in post-production.
Kiš was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was due to win it, were it not for his untimely death in 1989.
Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960. In 1962 he published his first two novels, Mansarda and Psalam 44. Kiš received the prestigious NIN Award for his Peščanik ("Hourglass") in 1973, which he returned a few years later, due to a political dispute.
During the following years, Kiš received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry.
He spent most of his life in Paris and working as a lecturer elsewhere in France.
Kiš was married to Mirjana Miočinović from 1962 to 1981. After their separation, he lived with Pascale Delpech until his early death from lung cancer in Paris.
A film based on Peščanik (Fövenyóra) directed by the Hungarian Szabolcs Tolnai is currently in post-production.
Kiš was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was due to win it, were it not for his untimely death in 1989.
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