LJUBOMIR SIMOVIĆ
Writer
Užice, 2 December 1935

Full member

Department of Language and Literature

 

Membership of SASA
Corresponding member from 15 December 1988;
Full member since  27 October 1994

Field of study
Literature (poetry, drama, essay, prose)

Education
Department of Yugoslav Literature and Serbo-Croat Language, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (1962)

Career
Writer; poet

Positions in SASA
Deputy Secretary of the Department of Language and Literature (1990-2006)

Accession speech
Sterija among masks, Glas / SASA. Department of Language and Literature. 377, 16 (1995).

Membership of specialist associations
Board for the protection of artistic freedom of the Association of Serbian Writers (1992); member of Managing Board of the Serbian PEN Centre (1998)

Awards and recognitions
Zmaj’s Award, 1973;
Sterija’s Award, 1975, 1986, 1993, 2006;
Branko Miljković Award, 1980;
Milan Rakić Award, 1982;
Prize of the City of Belgrade, 1989;
Dis Award 1989;
The 7th July Award of SR Serbia, 1990;
BIGZ Award, 1990;
Golden cross of Prince Lazar, 1992;
Desanka Maksimović Award, 1994;
Žiča Chrysobull, 1995;
Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša Award, 1997;
Isidorijana, 1997;
Joakim Vujić Award, 2000;
Vasko Popa Award, 2000;
Jovan Dučić Award, 2004;
Mića Popović Award, 2006;
Honorary citizen of Užice, 2011;
Golden Key of Smederevo, 2012;
SKZ Award for lifetime achievement, 2013;
‘Ljubomir P. Nenadović’ Award for the best travel book in the Serbian language, 2016;
‘Dositej Obradović’ Award for lifetime achievement, 2016.

Biographies and bibliographies
Yearbook / SASA. 105 (1999) 441-561;SASA. 114(2008), 375-473