Milo Lompar (; born 19 April 1962) is a Serbian

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, professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, writer, president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment and former director general of

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Biography

Lompar was born in 1962 in

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which at that time was part of

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and is of paternal Montenegrin Serb descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Group for Yugoslav Literature and General Literature). He received his doctorate at the same faculty with a thesis on the historical, poetic and literary heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the late works of

Miloš Crnjanski Miloš Crnjanski ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Црњански, ; 26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a Serbian writer and poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, journalist and a diplomat. Biography Crnjanski was born in Cso ...

before a committee consisting of academician Nikola Milošević, prof. dr.

Jovan Deretić Jovan Deretić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Деретић, ǒʋan derětit͡ɕ 22 January 1934 – 16 June 2002) was a Serbian historian and author of Serbian literary history. His work ''Istorija Srpske književnosti'' (1983) is the standard work ...

and prof. dr. Novica Petković. At the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, he is a professor of

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of the 18th and 19th centuries and Cultural history of Serbs. He was the general director of Politika a.d. in the period 2005–2006. In 2018, the

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published a book of texts about the painter

Petar Lubarda Petar Lubarda (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Лубарда); 27 July 1907 – 13 February 1974) was a Serbian painter. Biography He was born in Ljubotinj, near Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro. Lubarda's father was an officer of the Royal Y ...

, titled ''Knjiga o Lubardi''. The selection of texts was made by Professor Milo Lompar.

Political involvement

As a

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member of the

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Political Council, which he joined in 2015 along with Kosta Čavoški, Aleksandar Lipkovski, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Zoran Čvorović and other national conservative oriented intellectuals, he helped the Dveri and

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political coalition win its MPs in the 2016 parliamentary elections. He left the Dveri Political Council in January 2018. In April 2022, Lompar signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

Selected works

Source: * ''Historical, Poetic and Literary Heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Late Works of Miloš Crnjanski'', doctoral dissertation, 1993 * ''About the end of the novel'' (''The meaning of the end of the novel'' The Second Book of Migration by ''Miloš Crnjanski'', Rad, Beograd, 1995. Drugo, izmenjeno izdanje: Drustvo za srpski jezik i književnost Srbije, Beograd, 2008 * ''Modern Times in the Prose of Dragiša Vasić'', Filip Višnjić, Belgrade, 1996 * ''Njegoš and the Modern'', Filip Višnjić, Belgrade, 1998. Second, corrected edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 2008 * ''Crnjanski and Mephistopheles'' (''On the Hidden Figure of the Novel about London)'', Filip Visnjic, Belgrade, 2000. Second, edited edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 200. * ''Apollo's Signposts'' ''(Essays on Crnjanski)'', Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro, Belgrade, 2004 * ''Book on Crnjanski'', Serbian Literary Association, Belgrade, 2005 * ''Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries'', Narodna knjiga, Belgrade, 2006 - With co-author Zorica Nestorović * ''Moralistic Fragments'', Narodna knjiga, Belgrade, 2007. Second, expanded edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 2009 * ''Somewhere on the Border of Philosophy and Literature'' ''(On the literary hermeneutics of Nikola Milošević)'', Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2009 * ''About the Tragic Poet'' ''(Njegoš's songs)'', Albatross plus, Belgrade, 2010 * ''Njegoš's Poetry'', Serbian Literary Association, Belgrade, 2010 * ''The Spirit of Self-Denial, a contribution to the critique of Serbian culture'', Orpheus, Novi Sad, 2011 * ''Return to the Serbian Point of View,'' Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2013 * ''Polyhistorical Research'', Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2016 * ''Praise for Modernity'', Laguna, Belgrade, 2016 * ''Freedom and Truth'', Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2018 * ''Crnjanski: Biography of One Feeling'', Poslovna reč NS, Belgrade, 2018 *''Pseudo-Intellectual and National Politics'', Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2021 * ''Crnjаnski i svetskа književnost'', Prаvoslаvnа reč NS, 2021 * ''Nervozni čаs pripovesti'', 2022 * ''Oproštаj sа intelektuаlcem'', Srpskа književnа zаdruа, 2022 * ''Uspon kolonijаlne svesti: lаžnа istoriogrаfijа Lаtinke Perović,'' Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2022 * ''Mаnekeni lаži: politički esej'', 2023 * ''O samozvancu'', 2025

References

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