David Albahari

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David Albahari
Albahari in 2011
Born	(1948-03-15) 15 March 1948 (age 73) Peć, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Nationality	Serbian, Canadian
Alma mater	University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology

David Albahari (Serbian Cyrillic: Давид Албахари, pronounced [dǎv̞id albaxǎːriː]; born 15 March 1948)^[1] is a Serbian writer, residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Albahari writes mainly novels and short stories in the Serbian language. He is also an established translator from English into Serbian. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts^[1] and a University of Belgrade graduate.

Biography[]

Born in Peć,^[1] in the former Yugoslav region of Kosovo to a Sephardic Jewish family, Albahari published the first collection of short stories Porodično vreme (Family Time) in 1973. He became better known to wider audience in 1982 with a volume Opis smrti (Description of Death) for which he got Ivo Andrić award. In 1991 he became the chair of the Federation of Jewish Communes of Yugoslavia, and worked on evacuation of the Jewish population from besieged Sarajevo. In 1994, he moved with his family to Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, where he still lives. He continues to write and publish in the Serbian language.

In the late 1980s, Albahari initiated the first formal petition to legalize marijuana in Yugoslavia.

Awards[]

In 2012 he was awarded the Vilenica Prize. He also received the following awards: Ivo Andrić Award (1982), Stanislav Vinaver Award (1993), NIN Prize (1996), National Library of Serbia Award for bestseller (1996), International Balkanika Award (1996), Bridge Berlin Award (1998), City of Belgrade Award (2005) and Isidora Sekulić Award (2014).^[1]

On 29 July 2016, Albahari won the first award at the "Druga prikazna" ("Another Story") literary festival in Skopje, Macedonia.^[2]

Albahari has been contributing to Geist magazine.

Works[]

His books have been translated into several languages and eight of them are available in English:

• Words Are Something Else (1996)
• Tsing (1997)
• Bait (2001)
• Gotz and Meyer (2003, United Kingdom) (2005, United States)
• Snow Man (2005)
• Leeches (2011)
• Globetrotter (2014)
• Learning Cyrillic (2014)
• Checkpoint (2018).

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External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Albahari.

• Homepage in Serbian and English
• Voices on Antisemitism Interview with David Albahari from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Biography at Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin
• "Marijuana March in Belgrade"
• David Albahari at Geist.com
• Biography at Zandonai Editore
• Zink, Emanuela Zandonai Editore, Rovereto 2009
• L’esca (original title: "Mamac"), Emanuela Zandonai Editore, Rovereto 2008