Saša Ilić (writer, born 1972)

Saša Ilić
Native name	Саша Илић
Born	Saša Ilić (1972-10-09)9 October 1972 Jagodina
Occupation	Writer
Language	Serbo-Croatian
Nationality	Serbian
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Years active	1995–

Saša Ilić (Serbian : Саша Илић; born 9 October 1972) is a Serbian writer.

Works

Most of Ilić's early works were published in the magazine Reč, where he debuted in January 1995. In 1998, he co-authored a book titled Odyssey with Dragan Bošković. In 2000, he published the prose book Premonition of a Civil War, the first book in the Reč edition.

His novel Berlin Window, for which he received a scholarship from the Borislav Pekić Foundation, ^[1] was shortlisted for the NIN Award in 2005. ^[2]

In 2015, he published two collections of stories, Dušanovac Stop, which won a special recognition ^[3] for its graphic design at the Belgrade Book Fair, and Urchin Hunt. In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. ^{[4] [5]} In 2019 his novel The Dog and the Double Bass won the NIN Award. ^[6]

Novels

• Берлинско окно, (Berlin Window, 2005).
• Пад Колумбије (The Fall of Columbia, 2010).
• Пас и контрабас (The Dog and the Double Bass, 2019).

Short stories

• Предосећање грађанског рата (Premonition of a Civil War, 2005).
• Душановац. Пошта (Dušanovac Stop, 2015).
• Лов на јежеве (Urchin Hunt, 2015).

References

1. "Храбро бетонирање". www.danas.rs. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
2. "Miro Vuksanović – "Semolj zemlja"". www.nin.rs.
3. "Svečano uručene nagrade 60. Međunarodnog beogradskog sajma knjiga". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
4. Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN   0350-5006. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2020. Alt URL.
5. "Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku". Jezici i nacionalizmi. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
6. "Saša Ilić dobitnik Ninove nagrade za roman "Pas i kontrabas"". 20 January 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2024.

External links

• Ein Blick durchs Berliner Fenster, Ein Interview mit Saša Ilić