Academician Milovan Danojlić passed away

It is with deep regret that the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts announces the passing of its full member Milovan Danojlić, aged 85 (b. 12 July, Ivanovci-Ljig), one of our most prolific and most successful writers and ever-watchful intellectuals, in Poitiers (France), on 23 November 2022.

He graduated in French Language and Literature, from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, the Department of Roman Languages, in 1973. He worked as a permanent and independent associate in ‘Borba’ and ‘Politika’ daily newspapers, weeklies Nin and Pečat and various literary journals. He lived in France since 1984, where he had two sessions of work as a Serbo-Croatian language lecturer at the University of Poitiers.

Danojlić published over 70 types of works, poetry, prose and essay writing included. He particularly contributed to Serbian children’s poetry. He compiled and edited a great number of children’s books, and he also translated works of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Brodsky, Cioran, Aragon, Pound, Yeats, Ionesco, and Claudel.

He was elected a SASA foreign member in 2000, and its corresponding member in 2015, and he became a full member in 2018. He was the president of the Serbian Literary Guild from 2013, and a founder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Adligat Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation in Belgrade. Since 2009, his endowment has been under the auspices of the Adligat.

Milovan Danojlić received numerous awards and recognitions, some of which are as follows: Zmaj Award, NIN Award, October Prize of the City of Belgrade, Branko Ćopić Fund Award, Desanka Maksimović Foundation Award, Neven Literary Award, Vital Award, Bora Stanković Award, Dis Award, Žiča Chrysobull, Njegoš Award, Rade Drainac Award, Isidora Sekulić Award, Order of Saint Sava and various others.

His passing represents a great loss for the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as Serbian society and the overall Serbian national culture.