BRANKO ĆOPIĆ
Writer
(b. Hašani (Bosanska Krupa), 01 January 1915 – d. Belgrade, 26 March 1984)

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language; corresponding member from 16 December 1965; full member from 7 March 1968

Accession speech: Dane Drmogaća (a short story). Posebna izdanja / SANU 434 (1970) 87-95.

Awards and recognitions: Rakić’s Award 1939; award of the Committee for Science and Culture, 1947, 1948; Award of FNRY Government, 1949; NIN Award 1958; October Prize of the City of Belgrade, 1956; Young Descendants Award 1964; AVNOJ Award, 1970; Njegoš Award 1972; Skender Kulenović Award 1978; the 7th July Award of FR Serbia, 1969; Ravna Gora Award, 1995 (bestowed by SPO (Serbian Renewal Movement)) for the novel ’Gluvi barut’ [Silent Gunpowder]; Order of Brotherhood and Unity of the first degree; Order of the Merit to the People of the first degree; Order of Yugoslav Banner with ribbon; a receiver of Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941