Predrag Palavestra ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Палавестра; 14 June 1930 – 19 August 2014) was an author, literary historian and academic. He was a member of the

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and the

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Biography

Palavestra was born in Sarajevo in 1930. He graduated from the

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Faculty of Philology, where he received his doctorate in 1964. As a literary critic, he wrote for the newspaper ''

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'' and was the editor of the newspaper ''Književne novine'' and the magazine ''Savremenik''. He worked as the director of the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade. He was twice elected president of the

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Centre of Serbia. He was a member of the Privy Council and the Board of Directors of the Fund of the Royal House of Karađorđević. He was admitted to the membership of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 7 May 1981, when he was elected as a corresponding member. He was elected as a regular member on 15 December 1988. He was first elected to the position of Secretary of the Language and Literature Department of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 26 April 1994, and re-elected on 28 May 1998 and 23 April 2002. His book ''Posleratna srpska književnost 1945—1970'' (Post-war Serbian literature 1945–1970) was tacitly banned and part of its circulation was set on fire. Palavestra died in Belgrade on 19 August 2014, at the age of 84.

Works

* ''Književne teme'' (1958) * ''Književnost Mlade Bosne'' (1965) * ''Tokovi tradicije'' (1971) * ''Posleratna srpska književnost'' 1945—1970 (1972) * ''Dogma i utopija Dimitrija Mitrinovića: počeci srpske književne avangarde'' (1977) * ''Kritika i avangarda u modernoj srpskoj književnosti'' (1979) * ''Skriveni pesnik: Ivo Andrić'' (1981) * ''Kritička književnost'' (1983) * ''Nasleđe srpskog modernizma'' (1985) * ''Istorija moderne srpske književnosti — zlatno doba 1892–1918.'' (1986) * ''Književnost kao kritika ideologije'' (1991) * ''Knjiga o Andriću'' (1992) * ''Književnost i javna reč'' (1994) * ''Kritičke rasprave'' (1995) * ''Jevrejski pisci u srpskoj književnosti'' (1998) * ''Istorija srpskog PEN-a'' (2006) ;Editor * Twenty five books in the series titled ''Serbian literary criticism'',

Matica Srpska The Matica srpska ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Матица српска, Matica srpska, ) is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national institution. It was founded on June 1, 1826, in Pest, ...

* ''Knjiga srpske fantastike XII—XX veka'',

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(1989) * ''Srpski simbolizam'',

(1983) * ''Srpska fantastika'', SANU (1987) * ''Tradicija i moderno društvo'', SANU (1987) * ''Odgovornost nauke i inteligencije'', SANU (1990) * ''Srpska književnost u emigraciji'', SANU (1991) * ''O Jovanu Dučiću — povodom pedesetogodišnjice smrti'', SANU (1996)

References

External links

SANU profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Palavestra, Predrag 1930 births 2014 deaths Writers from Sarajevo Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian literary critics Serbian literary historians University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina Recipients of the Sixth of April Sarajevo Award