Milorad Pavić

Writer Oct 15 (died age 80) Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia [now Republic of Serbia] 1975–1993 (18 year career)

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Biography

Milorad Pavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Павић; 15 October 1929 – 30 November 2009) was a Serbian novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary historian. Born in Belgrade in 1929, he published a number of poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." Pavić's works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He was vastly popular in Euro…