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Serbian writer and screenwriter (1940–2025)

Filip David David in 2013 Native name Филип Давид Born (1940-07-04)4 July 1940 Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Died 14 April 2025(2025-04-14) (aged 84) Occupation Writer Language Serbian Nationality Serbian Alma mater University of Belgrade Notable awards NIN Award 2014 Kuća sećanja i zaborava

**Filip David** ([Serbian Cyrillic](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet): Филип Давид; 4 July 1940 – 14 April 2025) was a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, [short stories](/source/Short_story) and novels. In 1987, he was awarded the [Andrić Prize](/source/Andri%C4%87_Prize) for his short story collection *Princ Vatre*,[1] and in 2015 he won the [NIN Award](/source/NIN_Award) for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel *Kuća sećanja i zaborava* ("The House of Remembering and Forgetting").[2]

## Life and career

David was born on 4 July 1940 in [Kragujevac](/source/Kragujevac) to a [Jewish](/source/Jews_in_Serbia) family. Members of his family were some of the victims of the 1941 [Kragujevac massacre](/source/Kragujevac_massacre) committed by occupation forces during the [World War II in Yugoslavia](/source/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia).[3] He graduated from both the [Faculty of Philology](/source/University_of_Belgrade_Faculty_of_Philology) of the [University of Belgrade](/source/University_of_Belgrade) and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the [Belgrade University of Arts](/source/Belgrade_University_of_Arts).[4] He was a long-time editor of the drama program of the [Radio Television of Belgrade](/source/Radio_Television_of_Belgrade).[5] In 1989, he was one of the founders of the "Independent Writers" society in [Sarajevo](/source/Sarajevo), in then-[SFR Yugoslavia](/source/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](/source/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87).[6] In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.[7]

The writer was a signatory of the [Declaration on the Common Language](/source/Declaration_on_the_Common_Language) of the [Croats](/source/Croats), [Serbs](/source/Serbs), [Bosniaks](/source/Bosniaks) and [Montenegrins](/source/Montenegrins) within the project *Languages and Nationalisms*.[8] The declaration opposes the political separation of four [Serbo-Croatian](/source/Serbo-Croatian_Language) 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.[9]

David died on 14 April 2025, at the age of 84.[10]

## Work

David wrote several television dramas, dramas, books of essays, [short story collections](/source/Short_story_collection) and novels.[4]

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"*,[11] also translated as *"The House of Remembering and Forgetting"*[12])

Books of essays:

- "Fragmenti iz mračnih vremena" (*"Fragments from Dark Times"*)

- "Jesmo li čudovišta" (*"Are We Monsters"*)

- "Svetovi u haosu" (*"Worlds in Chaos"*)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Andrić Prize"](https://www.ivoandric.org.rs/english/andric-prize). *Задужбина Иве Андрића*. Retrieved 2024-09-04.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ninovanovosti_2-0)** ["Filip David dobitnik 61.Ninove nagrade"](http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:529647-Filip-David-dobitnik-61Ninove-nagrade) [Filip David Winner of the 61. NIN Prize]. [Vecernje novosti](/source/Vecernje_novosti). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Djokić_3-0)** Dejan Djokić (2023). *A Concise History of Serbia*. Cambridge University Press. p. 402. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-107-02838-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-107-02838-8).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-danas_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-danas_4-1) Radovanović, Rade (8 February 2014). ["Koliko vredi ljudski život"](http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/nedelja/koliko_vredi_ljudski_zivot.26.html?news_id=275943) [How much is worth a human life]. [Danas](/source/Danas_(newspaper)). Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["О холокаусту и последицама"](http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/O-holokaustu-i-posledicama.sr.html) [The Holocaust and the consequences] (in Serbian). [Politika](/source/Politika). 30 August 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Filip David: Beogradom sada šeta oko tri stotine potencijalnih ratnih zločinaca"](http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/vijesti/region/filip-david-beogradom-sada-seta-oko-tri-stotine-potencijalnih-ratnih-zlocinaca-) [Filip David: Around three hundred potential war criminals walk in Belgrade now] (in Serbo-Croatian). [Oslobođenje](/source/Oslobo%C4%91enje). 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Filip David"](http://www.laguna.rs/a329_autor_filip_david_laguna.html) (in Serbian). Laguna. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). ["Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca"](http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142) [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. *Večernji List* (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: [Večernji list](/source/Ve%C4%8Dernji_list). pp. 6–7. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0350-5006](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0350-5006). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170920235101/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142) from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Jezici i nacionalizmi](http://jezicinacionalizmi.com) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180809220921/http://jezicinacionalizmi.com/) 2018-08-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Preminuo književnik Filip David"](https://www.rts.rs/lat/magazin/svet-poznatih/5694930/filip-david-smrt-pisac-dramaturg-scenarista.html) [Writer Filip David passed away]. *[Radio Television of Serbia](/source/Radio_Television_of_Serbia)* (in Serbian). 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Knjizara.com: [The House of Memory and Oblivion](https://www.knjizara.com/The-House-of-Memory-and-Oblivion-Filip-David-146479)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Peter Owen Publishers: [The House of Remembering and Forgetting](https://web.archive.org/web/20181113030441/https://www.peterowen.com/shop/house-of-remembering-and-forgetting)

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