Svetozar Koljević ( sr-cyr, Светозар Кољевић; 9 September 1930 – 29 May 2016)
was a Serbian author, historian, translator, and professor, member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...

and

Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska The Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska (Serbo-Croatian: ''Академија наука и умјетности Републике Српске'', АНУРС / ''Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske'', ANURS) is highe ...

. He was the elder brother of

Nikola Koljević Nikola Koljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Кољевић; 9 June 1936 – 25 January 1997) was a Bosnian Serb politician, university professor, translator and an essayist, one of the foremost Yugoslavian Shakespeare scholars. In 2016, he w ...

. His studies focused on South Slavic epic poetry.

Selected works

* ''Trijumf inteligencije'', Belgrade, 1963 * ''Humor i mit'', Belgrade, 1968 * ''Naš junački ep'', Belgrade, 1974 * ''Putevi reči'', Sarajevo, 1978 * ''The Epic in the Making,'' Oxford, 1980 * ''Pripovetke Ive Andrića'', Belgrade, 1983 * ''Viđenja i snoviđenja'', Sarajevo, 1986 * ''Hirovi romana'', Sarajevo, 1988 * ''Postanje epa'', Novi Sad, 1998 * ''Njegoš u engleskoj i američkoj kulturi'', Podgorica, 1999 * ''Engleski pesnici dvadesetog veka'', Belgrade, 2002 * ''Engleski romansijeri dvadesetog veka'', Belgrade, 2003 * ''Vavilonski izazovi'', Novi Sad, 2007 * ''Odjeci reči'', Belgrade, 2009

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* 1930 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Yugoslav historians People from Banja Luka Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian translators Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska 20th-century Serbian translators Koljević family {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub