 | MIRO VUKSANOVIĆ |
Full member
Department of Language and Literature
Membership of SASA
Corresponding member since 5 November 2009;
Full member since 5 November 2015
Field of study
Literature
Education
BA (1969) Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
Career
Professor (1969-1975); director, Sombor Library (1975-1988); director and editor-in-chief of the Matica Srpska Library and its editions; (1988-2014)
Positions in SASA
SASA Library Director (2011-); SASA Library Book Forum editor (2011-); SASA Branch in Novi Sad Executive Board Member (2011-); member of the Board for the Study of Literary History (2010-); member of the Board for Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian Language (2012-); president of the Management Board of the Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA (2010-2016); president of the Management Board of the Ivo Andrić Foundation (2016– ; member 2010–2016); SASA representative in the National Council for Culture (2011-; president 2014-2015)
Membership of SASA boards
Academy board for culture and art, president
Accession speech
A Ballad on a Dearest Word (published in Academic Accession Speeches/Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 1 (2016): 235–241)
Membership of specialist associations
Serbian Literary Society (2003-); Association of Writers of Vojvodina (1979-; president 1985-86); Presidency of Association of writers of Yugoslavia (1985-87); Matica Srpska Vice President (2004-2008); Vice President acting as President of Matica Srpska (2006-2008); Vuk’s Endowment Vice President (2003-2008); Management Board of Miloš Crnjanski Endowment (2007-2012); Management Board of Matica Srpska (1988-2008); President of the Management Board of the Matica Srpska Library (2014-)
Membership of editorial boards
Initiator of establishment and editor-in-chief of the Publishing centre of Matica Srpska (2008-); initiator and editor-in-chief of the anthology edition Ten centuries of the Serbian Literature (2008-) and Matica edition (2008-); initiator and editor-in-chief of the yearbook SASA Library Book Forum (2013-); member of editorial board of Srpska enciklopedija [Serbian Encyclopedia] (2004-); member of editorial board of Srpski biografski rečnik [Serbian Lexicon of Biographies] (2003-)
Recognitions and awards
‘Politika’ Award for a story, 1975;
‘Miroslav’s Gospel’ Award for the best prose book in Yugoslavia for the period 1997-2000;
Vuk’s Endowment Prize for art, 2000;
Prosveta Award for prose, 2000;
‘Borba’ Award for the book of the year, 2001;
Award of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina for the book of the year, 2002;
‘Laza Kostić’ Award for narrative prose, 2005;
NIN Award of the panel of critics for the best novel in the Serbian language of 2005;
‘Meša Selimović’ Award for the best book in the Serbian language, 2005;
Golden Hit Liber, 2006;
‘Branko Radićević Statuette’ at ‘Brankovo kolo’ manifestation, 2010;
Lifetime Achievement Recognition of the Association of Serbian Writers, 2012;
‘Veljko’s Dove’ for the overall narrative work, 2015;
‘Herceg Šćepan’s Seal’ at the Square of the Cyrillic’ manifestation in Herceg Novi, 2017;
Vuk Award, 2004;
Awards of the Republic: ‘Milorad Panić Surep’,1996; ‘Zapis’, 2007;’Đura Daničić’, 2009;
‘Stojan Novaković’, 2012; ‘Janko Šafarik’, 2014.
Biographies and bibliographies
SASA Yearbook CXVI (2009); 677-697; CXVII (2010); 567-618.