Radoslav Bratić
Serbian writer (1948-2016)
Radoslav Bratić (28 June 1948 in Brestice, near Bileća, Bosnia-Herzegovina – 2 June 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian writer, playwright and editor. He was also a corresponding member Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska.
Biography
Radoslav Bratić finished primary school in Korita (near Bileća) and in Bileća, high school in Trebinje, and studied Yugoslav and world literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He was the editor of the student magazine Znak, the magazine Književnost, the newspaper Književna reč, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Relasion.
He worked as a secretary and vice-president of the Association of Writers of Serbia, then as an editor in the publishing house "BIGZ", where he edited a dozen libraries. Among other books, he edited the collected works Slobodan Jovanović, Danilo Kiš, a set of books Borislav Pekić, as well as the edition "New Books of Domestic Writers". He started the famous library "Conversations with Writers" and published several books in it. He also prepared the book Prayers and Petitions of His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle.
Bratić made several selections in literature and edited several thematic blocks in newspapers and magazines, including literature China, India, Lusatian Serbs, and American blacks.
His short stories have been included in several anthologies and anthologies in Yugoslavia and around the world, and have been translated into English, Hindi, German, Swedish, Polish, Czech, French, Chinese, Romanian, Russian and Italian.
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