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Miroslav Josić Višnjić

Serbian writer (1946-2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1257161 ↗
Source-derived summary

Miroslav Josić Višnjić (15 December 1946 – 8 September 2015) was a Serbian writer and poet. He won numerous literary prizes, most notably NIN Prize 1990 for his novel Odbrana i propast Bodroga u sedam burnih godišnjih doba and the Andrić Prize in 1998. He died at the age of 69.

Selected works

Novels

Odbrana i propast Bodroga u sedam burnih godišnjih doba

Pristup u počinak

Roman bez romana

Svetovno trojstvo

Roman o smrti galerije

Short stories collections

Kvartet

Dvanaest godova

Poems

Azbuka smeha

Essays

Azbučnik prideva u srpskoj prozi 20.

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“Miroslav Josić Višnjić” enters the record as serbian writer (1946-2015). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miroslav, Josić and Višnjić can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 2015, 1990, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-12-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miroslav, Josić and Višnjić.
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“Miroslav Josić Višnjić” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Miroslav, Josić and Višnjić provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1257161. VIAF identifies the subject as 59206629. The Library of Congress control number is n80164793. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 2015, 1990 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miroslav Josić Višnjić” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.