Ljubomir Simović

Ljubomir Simović
Ljubomir Simović
	Simović signing a book in 2017
Born	2 December 1935 (age 88); Užice, Drina Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Occupation(s)	Poet and writer

Ljubomir Simović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубомир Симовић; born 2 December 1935) is a Serbian poet, short story writer, playwright, and scriptwriter of TV dramas and movies. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.^[1] His works have been translated in more than twenty languages.

Biography

Simović was born in the town of Užice,^[2] where he finished Gymnasium and Teacher's school. He graduated at Faculty of Philology(Department of History of Serbian and Yugoslav Literature) at University of Belgrade.^[2] He writes poems, novels, essays, literary criticism, but he is best known for his plays. He wrote 4 plays: Hasanaginica, A Miracle in Sargan (Serbian: Čudo u Šarganu), Traveling theatre Sopalovic (Serbian: Putujuće pozorište Šopalović) and The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Boj na Kosovu).^[3] His works have been translated into almost all European languages and his plays were performed in almost all theatres in Serbia. Also his plays were performed in France, Hungary, Czhez Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, North Macedonia, Canada, Mexico, and Morocco.

In 1996 he published "A chronicle, which is occasionally a novel, or a novel, which is occasionally a chronicle" about his hometown called "Uzice with the Crows" (Serbian: Užice sa vranama).

His selected works have been published in 12 books in 2008.^[4]

Works

Slovenske elegije, (1958)
Veseli grobovi, (1961)
Poslednja zemlja, (1964)
Šlemovi, (1967)
Uoči trećih petlova, (1972)
Hasanaga's Wife, (1974)
Miracle in Šargan, (1975)
Subota, (1976)
Vidik na dve vode, (1980)
Um za morem, (1982)
Deset obraćanja Bogorodici Trojeručici hilandarskoj, (1983)
Duplo dno, (1983)
Istočnice, (1983)
Snevnik I-II, (1987)
Gornji grad, (1990)
Kovanica na Čakovina, (1990)
Duplo dno, eseji o pesnicima, (1991)
Igla i konac, (1992)
Galop na puževima, (1994)
Uzice with the Crows, (1996)
Ljuska od jajeta, (1998)
Snevnik, dnevnik snova, 1998
Novi galop na puževima, (1999)
Duplo dno, eseji o srpskim pesnicima, o komedijama Sterije i Nušića, i o Životu i priključenijima Dositejevim, (2001)
Čitanje slika, eseji o slikarima i vajarima, (2006)
Kina: čitanje spaljenih knjiga, (2007)
Planeta Dunav, (2009)
Do Oba i Huangpua, (2016)
Žabe u redu pred poktivačnicom, (2016)