Petar Džadžić (Bitola, 18 September 1929 – Belgrade, 31 July 1996) was a Serbian literary critic and corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Born in Bitola,[1] Džadžić graduated and got his PhD in Philological Faculty of Belgrade University with a subject on Ivo Andrić (on whom he wrote extensively during his career including his influential 1957 book[1]). His first literary criticisms appeared in late 1950s. He favored new, modernist flows in Serbian literature. He was editor in chief of students' magazine Vidici and later on a founder of the highly influential literary magazine Delo. He wrote his criticisms for NIN, Politika and Belgrade state TV (RTB). Džadžić later worked as an editor in Prosveta publishing house.[2] Since 1994 he was a corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[3] He won several prestigious awards including the October Prize (1965).
References
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- ^ Танјуг. "Na današnji dan: Preminuo Petar DŽadžić". Нова српска политичка мисао.
- ^ "Члан САНУ". sanu.ac.rs. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
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