 | VIDA OGNJENOVIĆ |
Corresponding member
Department of Arts
Membership of SASA
Corresponding member since 7 November 2024
Education
BA (1963) Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature; BA (1965) Academy of Theatre, Film and Television in Belgrade, Director Department; Postgraduate studies at Sorbonne, Paris as a scholarship student of the Government of the Republic of France (1967), MFA (1972) University of Minnesota, Department of Theatre Art, Fullbright Scholarship
Career
Freelance artist (1967−1974), assistant at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Belgrade, Department of Theatre Directing (1974−1979); director of Drama of the National Theatre in Belgrade (1977−1981); invited professor of the Fullbright Foundation at UCLA (The University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Theatre Art) (1981−1983); Director and playwright in the National Theatre in Belgrade (1983−1991); director of the National Theatre in Belgrade (1991−1993); professor of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of Acting (1996−2001); ambassador of SR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro in Norway (2001−2006); professor of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Department of dramaturgy (2006−2008); ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Denmark (2009−2014); professor emeritus of the University of Novi Sad and Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade (od 2014). As an invited professor she held lectures at the University of Illinois Chicago UIC (1996), Columbia College Chicago (2000). Within lecture visiting tours she was a guest lecturer at various USA universities (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2003).
Membership of specialist associations
Serbian PEN Centre, president; International PEN Centre, vice-president; member of the Serbian Royal Society, member of the Association of Drama Artists of Serbia
Membership of other academies
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, foreign member (since 2022)
Awards and recognitions
Cultural Community of the City of Belgrade Award (for the adaptation and directing of the play Izbiračica [Chooser], 1975)
October Prize of the City of Belgrade (for the play Mefisto,1984)
Sterija ‘s Award for dramatization (Korijen, stablo i epilog [Root, Trunck and the Epilogue], 1984)
Golden Wreath of the International Theatre Festival in Sarajevo (for the play Mefisto,1985)
National Theatre Annual Award (for the play Mefisto, 1985)
Cultural Community of the City of Belgrade Award for directing (for the play Seobe [Migrations], 1986)
Golden Turkey for the best comedy at Jagodina Days of Comedy (for the text and directing of Kako zasmejati gospodara,[How to Make the Master Laugh] 1987)
Vojvodina’s Theatres Festival (for directing of Kako zasmejati gospodara play,[How to Make the Master Laugh]1988)
Sterija’s Award for the best drama text (Je li bilo kneževe večere [Was there a Prince’s Dinner], 1991)
Vuk’s Endowment Award for art (text and directing of the play Je li bilo kneževe večere, [Was there a Prince’s Dinner] 1992)
Joakić Vujić Award for Theatrical Work (1999)
Sterija’s Award for the best drama text and the best directing (the play Jegorov put,[Jegor’s Path] 2001)
Theatre City Budva Festival Award (for the drama text and directing Don Krsto, 2008)Sterija’s Award for the theatrical contribution (2010)
Sterija’s Award for the best Drama text Kozocid,( 2019)
Doajen pozorišta Lifetime Achievement Award awarded by the Union of Drama Artists of Vojvodina (2024)
Literary work awards
Prosveta Award for the book of the year (1994)
Andrić’s Award (1995)
Laza Kostić Award for a novel (1996)
Karol Szirmay Short Story Award (1996)
Paja Marković Adamov Award for literary work (1997)
Ramonda Serbica Award for Literature (1998)
Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša Award for Literature (1999)
Todor Manojlović Award for modern expression in literature (2004)
Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja Award (2007)
Award of the National Library of Serbia for the most-read book of the year (2007)
Kočić’s Quill Award (2011)
Golden Hit Liber Award (2011)
Kočić’s Book Award for prose (2011)
Podrum Radovanović Award for literary work (2017)
Prozart Balkan Award (international literary award for lifetime achievement, Macedonia, 2015)
Special recognitions
Kliment Makedonski Award for Humanism (Macedonia, 2011)