DOBRICA ĆOSIĆ (b. Velika Drenova (Kruševac), 29 December 1921 – d. Belgrade, 18 May 2014)

Writer

Membership of SASA: Department of Language and Literature; corresponding member from 28 May 1970; full member from 22 April 1976

Accession speech: Literature and History Nowadays. Glas / SANU. Department of Language and Literature. 308, 9 (1978) 25-38.

Biogrpahy, bibliography: Godišnjak/SANU. 84 (1978) 315-322; 94 (1988) 377-380; 103 (1997) 365-369.

Membership of SASA boards: Interdepartmental Board for the Study of Serbian Minority in Neighbouring Countries; Interdepartmental Board for the 3rd Millennium; Board for the Study of Kosovo

Awards and recognitions: The 7th July Award for ‘Deobe’, 1961; NIN Award for ‘Deobe’, 1962; NIN Award, 1954 and 1961; Award of the Association of Serbian Writers, 1986; Njegoš Award, 1990; 1991; He declined the award of the National Library of SR Serbia; special Vuk’s Prize, 1991; BIGZ Award, 1991; Golden Cross of Prince Lazar, 1993; Laza Kostić Award, 1996; Meša Selimović Award, 1996; Kočić Endowment Award, 1996; Award of the National Library of Serbia, 1997; Svetozar Ćorović Award, 1997; Golden Ring of Despot Stefan Lazarević, 1998.