Svetislav Basara

Svetislav Basara

Svetislav Basara (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Басара) (born December 21, 1953 in Bajina Bašta, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a contemporary Serbian author. In addition to writing, he was politically active through Democratic Christian Party of Serbia (DHSS) and also had a diplomatic stint.

Biography

He is the author of more than forty literary works, including novels, story collections, and essays. He has received numerous Serbian literary awards, and his novel The Cyclist Conspiracy (Fama o biciklistima, literally "Fuss about Cyclists") is considered by his countrymen to be one of the ten best novels of the last decade.

He received the NIN Prize for the best novel published in Serbia in 2006 for the novel Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti (The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease). He is laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award 2015.

In 2001, Basara became the ambassador of FR Yugoslavia to Cyprus. He continued in the same role when in 2003 FR Yugoslavia, a federal state, got reconstituted as Serbia and Montenegro, a state union. He ended his engagement in 2005.

The writer is also signatory of the declaration of the project languages and nationalisms (Jezici i nacionalizmi). The declaration is against political separation of four Serbo-Croatian standard variants that leads to a series of negative social, cultural and political phenomena in which linguistic expression is enforced as a criterion of ethno-national affiliation and as a means of political loyalty in successor states of Yugoslavia.[1]

Works

  • Priče u nestajanju (1982)
  • Peking by Night (1985)
  • Kinesko pismo (Chinese Letter) (1985)
  • Napuklo ogledalo (1986)
  • Na ivici (1987)
  • Fama o biciklistima (The Cyclist Conspiracy) (1987)
  • Fenomeni (1989)
  • Na Gralovom tragu (In Search of the Grail) (1990)
  • Mongolski bedeker (Mongolian Travel Guide) (1992)
  • Tamna strana meseca (1992)
  • De bello civili (1993)
  • Drvo istorije (1995)
  • Ukleta zemlja (1995)
  • Virtualna kabala (1996)
  • Looney Tunes (1997)
  • Sveta mast (1998)
  • Vučji brlog (1998)
  • Ideologija heliocentrizma (1999)
  • Mašine iluzija (2000)
  • Kratkodnevnica (2000)
  • Džon B. Malkovič (2001)
  • Bumerang (2001)
  • Oksimoron (2001)
  • Srce Zemlje (2004)
  • Fantomski bol (2005)
  • Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti, (2006) ISBN 86-7346-554-0
  • Izgubljen u samoposluzi (2008)
  • Majmunopisanije (2008)
  • Dnevnik Marte Koen (2008)
  • Drvo istorije (2008)
  • Nova Stradija (2009)
  • Fundamentalizam debiliteta (2009)
  • Na gralovom tragu (2010)
  • Eros, giros i Tanatos (2010)
  • Početak bune protiv dahija (2010)
  • Tajna istorija Bajine Bašte (2010)
  • Mein Kampf (2011)
  • Dugovečnost (2012)
  • Gnusoba (2013)
  • Tušta i tma (2014), with Miljenko Jergović
  • Anđeo atentata (2015)
  • Drugi krug (2015), with Miljenko Jergović
  • Očaj od nane (2016)
  • Andrićeva lestvica užasa (2016)
  • Pušači crvenog bana (2017)
  • Nova srpska trilogija (2017)

References

  1. ↑ Jezici i nacionalizmi, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
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