Mihajlo Mihajlov
Yugoslav writer (1934–2010)
Mihajlo Mihajlov (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Михајлов, pronounced [mixǎːjlo mixǎːjloʋ]; 26 September 1934 – 7 March 2010) was a Serbian author, academic and publicist.
Mihajlov became one of the most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe after his arrest, trial and conviction in 1965. He spent a total of seven years in prison and was the only Yugoslav dissident whose passport was revoked.
Biography
Mihajlov was born in Pančevo on 29 September 1934, into a Russian family. His father was seventeen and his mother seven when they came to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1921 as part of the White émigrés led by Pyotr Wrangel. His mother tongue was Russian and he and his sisters learned Serbian practically at school. He graduated from the Sarajevo Gymnasium and graduated from the University of Zagreb (Zadar campus) at the Department of Comparative Literature in 1959. After completing his postgraduate studies in 1961, he served in the army for a year until 1962 in Trebinje.
During his time as a lecturer on Russian literature at the University of Zagreb in Zadar, Mihajlov visited the Soviet Union in April 1965, on a professor exchange program and published an essay describing his trip called Leto moskovsko (Summer of Moscow) in the Belgrade magazine Delo. For this, he was dismissed from the university.
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