Filip David

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'''Filip David''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Филип Давид}}; 4 July 1940 – 14 April 2025) was a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, [[short story|short stories]] and novels. In 1987, he was awarded the [[Andrić Prize]] for his short story collection ''Princ Vatre'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrić Prize |url=https://www.ivoandric.org.rs/english/andric-prize |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Задужбина Иве Андрића}}</ref> and in 2015 he won the [[NIN Award]] for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel ''Kuća sećanja i zaborava'' ("The House of Remembering and Forgetting").<ref name="ninovanovosti">{{cite web | url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:529647-Filip-David-dobitnik-61Ninove-nagrade | title=Filip David dobitnik 61.Ninove nagrade | publisher=[[Vecernje novosti]] | date=19 January 2015 | access-date=19 January 2015 |trans-title=Filip David Winner of the 61. NIN Prize}}</ref>

==Life and career== David was born on 4 July 1940 in [[Kragujevac]] to a [[Jews in Serbia|Jewish]] family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 [[Kragujevac massacre]] committed by occupation forces during the [[World War II in Yugoslavia]].<ref name="Djokić">{{cite book |author1=Dejan Djokić |title=A Concise History of Serbia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |ISBN=978-1-107-02838-8 |pages=402 |date=2023}}</ref> He graduated from both the [[University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology|Faculty of Philology]] of the [[University of Belgrade]] and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the [[Belgrade University of Arts]].<ref name="danas">{{cite web | url=http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/nedelja/koliko_vredi_ljudski_zivot.26.html?news_id=275943 | title=Koliko vredi ljudski život | publisher=[[Danas (newspaper)|Danas]] | date=8 February 2014 | access-date=19 January 2015 | author=Radovanović, Rade |trans-title=How much is worth a human life}}</ref> He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the [[Radio Television of Belgrade]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/O-holokaustu-i-posledicama.sr.html | title=О холокаусту и последицама | publisher=[[Politika]] | date=30 August 2012 | access-date=19 January 2015 |trans-title=The Holocaust and the consequences | language=sr}}</ref> In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in [[Sarajevo]], in then-[[SFR Yugoslavia]]. He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of [[Slobodan Milošević]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/vijesti/region/filip-david-beogradom-sada-seta-oko-tri-stotine-potencijalnih-ratnih-zlocinaca- | title=Filip David: Beogradom sada šeta oko tri stotine potencijalnih ratnih zločinaca | publisher=[[Oslobođenje]] | date=15 December 2013 | access-date=19 January 2015 |trans-title=Filip David: Around three hundred potential war criminals walk in Belgrade now | language=sh}}</ref> In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.laguna.rs/a329_autor_filip_david_laguna.html | title=Filip David | publisher=Laguna | access-date=19 January 2015 | language=sr}}</ref>

The writer was a signatory of the [[Declaration on the Common Language]] of the [[Croats]], [[Serbs]], [[Bosniaks]] and [[Montenegrins]] within the project ''Languages and Nationalisms''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Derk|first=Denis|title=Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca|newspaper=Večernji List|trans-title=A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear|language=sh|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142|publisher=[[Večernji list]]|pages=6–7|location=Zagreb|issn=0350-5006|date=28 March 2017|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920235101/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142|url-status=live|access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref> The declaration opposes the political separation of four [[Serbo-Croatian Language|Serbo-Croatian]] standard variants that leads to a series of negative social, cultural and political phenomena in which linguistic expression is enforced as a criterion of ethno-national affiliation and as a display of political loyalty in the successor states of Yugoslavia.<ref>[http://jezicinacionalizmi.com Jezici i nacionalizmi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809220921/http://jezicinacionalizmi.com/ |date=2018-08-09 }}, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.</ref>

David died on 14 April 2025, at the age of 84.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 April 2025 |title=Preminuo književnik Filip David |trans-title=Writer Filip David passed away |url=https://www.rts.rs/lat/magazin/svet-poznatih/5694930/filip-david-smrt-pisac-dramaturg-scenarista.html |access-date=14 April 2025 |work=[[Radio Television of Serbia]] |language=sr}}</ref>

==Work== David wrote several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, [[short story collection]]s and novels.<ref name="danas" />

Short story collections: *"Bunar u tamnoj šumi" (English: ''"A Well in a Dark Forrest"'') *"Zapisi o stvarnom i nestvarnom" (''"Notes of the real and the unreal"'') *"Princ vatre" (''"Fire Prince"'') *"Sabrane i nove priče" (''"Collected and New Stories"'') Novels: *"Hodočasnici neba i zemlje" (''"Pilgrims of the Earth and the Sky"'') *"San o ljubavi i smrti" (''"A Dream of Love and Death"'') *"Kuća sećanja i zaborava" (''"The House of Memory and Oblivion"'',<ref>Knjizara.com: [https://www.knjizara.com/The-House-of-Memory-and-Oblivion-Filip-David-146479 The House of Memory and Oblivion]</ref> also translated as ''"The House of Remembering and Forgetting"''<ref>Peter Owen Publishers: {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20181113030441/https://www.peterowen.com/shop/house-of-remembering-and-forgetting The House of Remembering and Forgetting]}}</ref>) Books of essays: *"Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" (''"Fragments from Dark Times"'') *"Jesmo li čudovišta" (''"Are We Monsters"'') *"Svetovi u haosu" (''"Worlds in Chaos"'')

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==External links== * {{IMDb name| 0202885}}

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