Ivan Ivanji (; born 24 January 1929) is a Serbian author of many internationally renowned novels. He was held in

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and

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during 1944 and 1945. He was Secretary General of the Yugoslav Writers' Union from 1982 - 1988. His most recent book is a fictionalized account of his pre-World War II experiences in the town of

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous pro ...

(Betschkerek) in the

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. He translates his own works from Serbian into German. Born in 1929 in

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he now lives in

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and

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. In 2017, he has signed the

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of the

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and

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. In April 2020, he was appointed honorary citizen of Weimar.''Éva Pusztai und Ivan Ivanji sind nun Weimarer Ehrenbürger''

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, 13. April 2020

Works of Fiction

* ''Dioklecijan''. Belgrad 1973
astBerlin 1976; Munich 1978, * ''Smrt za Zmajevoj steni''. 1982
. Dorsten 1984, * ''Konstantin''. Belgrad 1988
, Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988, * ''Schattenspringen''. Vienna 1993, * ''Ein ungarischer Herbst'', Vienna 1995, * ''Barbarossas Jude'', Vienna 1996, * ''Der Aschenmensch von Buchenwald''. Vienna 1999, * ''Die Tänzerin und der Krieg''. Vienna 2002, Serbocroatian Title: ''Balerina i rat'', 2003 * ''Geister aus einer kleinen Stadt'', Vienna 2008,

Prizes

* ''2011 Austrian Cross for Science and Art, I Class Extraordinary

References

External links

* http://wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/ivan-ivanji/ 1929 births Living people Writers from Zrenjanin Serbian Jews Serbian novelists Serbian science fiction writers Yugoslav science fiction writers Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Buchenwald concentration camp survivors {{Serbia-writer-stub