MASTER FOR THE SITE — integral international chronology

Overview of domestic and foreign interviews, conversations, television and radio appearances by Milorad Pavić. Conversations conducted during Pavić's lifetime but published posthumously are dated according to the time when they were conducted.

khazars.com — Media / video recordings

MASTER 1 — MILORAD PAVIĆ: INTERVIEWS 1971–2009

MASTER 1A — integral international chronology • MASTER 1B — domestic / foreign

MASTER 1A — integral international chronology

1971

• Ш — 6.3. — “After 230 Years on the Stage”, Politika.
• Ш — Ljubiša Đidić — “A New View of Our Literature”, Bagdala 142, pp. 9–11.

1974

• Ш — Radovan Popović — “Between Science and Art”, Pozorište, Novi Sad, No. 2.

1976

• Ш — Jovica Aćin — “A Dream Older Than the Dreamer”, Književna reč, 25.10.1976.

1978

• Ш — Dušan Veličković — “Living Heroes”, NIN 1423.

1979

• Ш — 17.6. — Anđelka Protić — “In the Focus of the Period”, Politika ekspres.
• Ш — 11.11. — Anđelka Protić — “So That the Reader Does Not Get Bored”, Politika ekspres.
• TV — 20.11. — Raša Livada — “In Close-Up”, TV Belgrade.

1981

• Milka Lučić — “Modern Literary Science Has an Underdeveloped Sense of History”, Politika, 25.4.
• Darinka Nikolić — “In Life as in Chess”, Dnevnik, 23.8.
• Božur Hajduković — conversation with Pavić, Prosvetni pregled, 29.9.

1982

• Dušan Veličković — “A Novel about Hilandar”, NIN, 30.5.

1983

• For now, there is no separate reliable interview entry in the basic Bio-Bibliography.

1984

• Milo Gligorijević — “The Centuries of Milorad Pavić”, NIN, 13.5.
• Vladimir Kopicl — “A Lexicon Full of Dreams”, Dnevnik, 19.7.
• Dragan Bogutović — “The Novel about the Dictionary”, Večernje novosti, 26.8.

1985

• Milka Lučić — “Dream Hunters”, Politika.
• Vladimir Por — “Dictionary of the Khazars According to the Taste of the Public”, Politika ekspres.
• Miloš Vasić — “To Go in the Direction in Which Fear Grows”, Intervju.
• Milo Gligorijević — “The Reader Hunter”, NIN.
• Ljiljana Binićanin — “The Soul Also Has a Skeleton”, Ilustrovana politika.
• Petru Krdu — “One Friday with Milorad Pavić”, Polja.
• Nada Bojić — “A Place Beside Princess Ateh”, Svet.
• Jagoda Prnja — “The Book Like Cinderella”, Glas.
• Miloš Milišić — “The Wrong Approach”, Borba.
• Momčilo Đorgović — “The Khazars Are Dreaming of Me Now”, Danas.
• R — Nikola Kovač — “Nothing Is as Fantastic as Life”, Third Programme of Radio Sarajevo.

1986

• Slobodan Radović — “Meeting with Pavić and the Khazars”, Vesti, Titovo Užice.
• The same conversation later published as “Do Not Believe the Writer” — do not count as a new entry.
• Snežana Zarić — “Interview: Milorad Pavić”, Start.
• Rade Nikolić — “The Secret of the Khazars”, Zavičaj.
• Slovenia — Jože Horvat / Delo; Helena Grandovec / Večer; Miloš Gligorijević's translation should not be counted again.

1987

• The year remains open for radio/TV archives.

1988

• Yugoslavia — Zoran Đerić, Boris Gregorić, Branko Brđanin, Milka Lučić, Ljiljana Bogdanović, Radmila Popović, Nada Mirković, Zorica Banjac, Branka Čuljić, Radovan Popović, Vesna Roganović and others.
• France — Jean-Baptiste Harang / Libération; Michel Caffier / L'Est Républicain; Nicole Zand / Le Monde; Marguerite Czarnecki / Réforme.
• Branka Bogavac-Le Comte — “Il est nécessaire que nous rêvions”, La Quinzaine littéraire. — link
• Italy — Irene Bignardi, Nico Orengo, Claudio Altarocca, Giuseppe Venosta, Cesare Medail, Elio Maraone, Fulvio Scaglione, Cristina Miscischia, Diego Zandel, Claudio M. Valentinetti and others.
• Germany/Austria — Die Presse, Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, Der Spiegel, Allgemeine Zeitung, Börsenblatt, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Der Brückenbauer.
• USA/Canada — H. J. Kirchhoff / Globe and Mail; D. J. R. Bruckner / NYT Book Review; Charles Simic / The World & I.

1989

• Jasmina Mihajlović — interview for Stil, winter 1989 — original audio recording exists in the Bequest.
• R — 22 and 29.10. — Radio Belgrade 2, “Guest of the Second Programme” — conversation with Miloš Jevtić — original recording in the Bequest.
• José Méndez — “Todos somos jázaros”, El País, 10.11. — link
• UK/Australia — Adam Mars-Jones, Mark Sanderson, Nicholas Rothwell.
• Italy — Giacomo Scotti, Maurizio Chierici, Guido Rampoldi; Canada/Netherlands — Ghila Benesty Sroka, Roel Naarding; Spain/Catalonia — several conversations.

1990

• Domestic — Ljiljana Binićanin, Petru Krdu, Halid Rifatbegović, Indira Hadžagić, Đorđe Pisarev.
• Israel — seven interviews: Maariv ×2, Al Hamishmar, Davar, Nuovo Haifa, Jerusalem, Yton 77.
• USA — Judith Shulevitz / NYT Book Review; Russia — E. Fadeev / Pravda; France — Odile Le Bihan; Spain — Javier Pérez Pellón.

1991

• 13.9. — Milorad Vučelić — “Internal Borders Must Be Changed”, Politika.
• 14.9. — “Europe Would Be Harmed by a New Wall Like the Berlin Wall”, Politika.
• Both continuations later combined in English as “Internal Frontiers Have to Be Changed”.
• 13.2. — “Lesezeichen — Beitrag Tisma/Pavic” — recording in the Bequest; broadcaster/format to be identified.
• Italy — a large block of at least ten conversations; Spain — Madueño, Piñol, Pérez Pellón; Greece — Gaga Rosić / Diavazo, Svetlana Tisma / Periodiko; Netherlands — Bert Boekman.

1992

• Domestic — Petru Krdu, Velibor Petković, Dragomir Kostić, Maja Vučetić, Milo Gligorijević, D. Bogdanović, Milka Lučić, Ž. Nikolić, Dragan Bajović, D. Poznanović.
• Jonathan Coe — “In Praise of Byzantium”, Guardian, 4.2.
• R — Franziska Meyer — Bayerischer Rundfunk, 24.3.
• Ken Kalfus — “Milorad Pavic, To Serbs With Love”, Voice Literary Supplement.
• Hana Boková — Český deník; Jean-Baptiste Harang — Libération.

1993

• Domestic — Dragan Bogutović ×2, Nevenka Opačić, Dušica Milanović, Jasmina Lekić, Raško Kovačević, Danica Diković-Ćurguz.
• Il Giornale, Milan, 27.6.; parts translated in Politika as “Better Times Will Come Anyway”.
• 24.4. — two video carriers marked “Milorad Pavić” — review.

1994

• Domestic — Dragan Bogutović, Gordana Jovanović, Pero Simić, Dragan Cvijović, Želidrag Nikčević, Milka Lučić, Petru Krdu, Dušica Milanović, Đorđe Pisarev, Nada Bojić.
• 19.7. — Milena Lubarda — Conversation with Milorad Pavić — original audio cassette in the Bequest.
• Greece — 28.1. Anastasia Lamparia / Mesimvrini; 10.4. Thanas Lalas / To Vima; 14.4. Lalas / Ta Nea; 24.4. Anna Stavraki / Eleftheria.
• 25.4. — Greek TV — VHS in the Bequest.

1995

• Rada Saratlić — “Easter Is One Great Secret”, Politika.
• Veselin Kljajić — “In the Landscape Painted with Tea”, Kuća stil — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović.
• Miroslava Nešić-Bikić — “The Author of the First Novel of the 21st Century / The Author of the First 21st Century Novel”, New JAT Review.
• JR — 20.9. — Youth Center, “Contemporaries: Milorad Pavić” — two cassettes.

1996

• JR — 29.2. — Novi Sad, promotion of The Hat Made of Fish Skin — audio recording.
• The year's interview corpus remains partially open.

1997

• Russia — “Library for Talented Readers…”, Inostrannaya literatura, No. 8; conversation held at the editorial office in May 1997. — link
• KR — Thanas Lalas — Milorad Pavić, Thessaloniki — book of conversations.
• JR — visit to the Novi Sad Fair — VHS in the Bequest.

1998

• Thanas Lalas — “As a Writer, I Was Born Two Hundred Years Ago”, Review of Contemporary Fiction. — link
• 14.2. — “Meridian” — recording in the Bequest; identify contents.

1999

• R — March — Russian Service of Radio Free Europe — “Milorad Pavić: Lexicon of the XXI Century” — original audio in the Bequest.
• Roman Dolzhansky — “A Writer Tired of War”, Kommersant, 16.10.1999. — link
• Andrei Shariy / Radio Svoboda; E. Jegereva / Novoye vremya.
• “Pavić in Moscow” — audio cassette — identify.

2000

• The conversation corpus has not yet been completely bibliographically closed; entries related to Terrible Love Stories should be checked against the original.

2001

• R — 7.9. — Echo of Moscow — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović.
• “Pavić Milorad: Moscow”, VHS, 2001 — review.
• Two Blic conversation texts — supplement titles/authors bibliographically.

2002

• Alisa Romanova — “Pavić Archipelago” — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović, Inostrannaya literatura, No. 2/2002. — link
• R — 9.8. — L'Autre Europe: Dictionnaire Khazar — Radio France Internationale — physical audio in the Bequest. — link
• Greece — Ta Nea, 3.8.2002.

2003

• “The Third in Bed”, Blic, 26.4.
• Russia — “Classic Milorad Pavić”, Voyage.

2004

• Isidora Bjelica — Playboy, No. 5, May 2004 — reception priority.
• TV — My Belgrade — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović, Studio B; recorded in 2004, online since 2024. — link

2005

• TV — Along the Balkan Street — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović. — link
• TV — Isidora Bjelica — Klot-Frket, BK TV — Pavić, Jasmina Mihajlović, Milica Milša, Žarko Jokanović — date/recording to be sought.
• TV — Velja Pavlović — Level 23, Studio B — date/recording to be sought.
• Israel — Ilya Krichevsky / Okna.

2006

• Anđelka Cvijić — “No One Is a Prophet in His Own Village”, Politika, 24.12.2006. — link
• Natalija Kochetkova — “Once I Was Almost Shot”, Izvestia, 18.4.2006.
• Ilmārs Šlāpiņš — “The World from the Viewpoint of Milorad Pavic”, Rīgas Laiks / Eurozine. — link

2007

• Tatjana Nježić — “Literature Is a Theater Made of Paper”, Blic. — link
• Tatjana Nježić — “Wipe Away the Dust, Let Us See the Nobility”, Blic.
• TV — Everything That Belongs to Me — Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović — TV Novi Sad, May 2007. — link
• R — unidentified interview in a radio programme, 2007 — CD in the Bequest.
• “Milorad Pavić 1 and 2 — Radio Programme 07” — possibly another two-part programme.
• JR — 26.2. — Megaron Plus, Athens — public conversation.
• Vera Kopilova — conversation conducted around 2007, later published as “I — the Playing Person”. — link

2008

• Tatjana Nježić — “New Spirituality Needed by the World”, Blic nedelje, 24.2. — link
• Aleksandra Diklić — “The Book Died and Rose Again Many Times”, Glas Srpske, 1.11. — link
• Anastasios Vistonitis — To Vima, 25.11.
• TV — Anastas Christomidis / ERT — four-part interview, recorded in Pavić's office at SANU — reception priority.

2009

• Tatjana Nježić — “Everyone Has Many Futures, and Chooses Only One”, Blic, 23.6. — link
• Maria Pozdnyakova — “You Have to Be Like Children Who Quickly Forget the Bad”, AiF — conversation conducted during his lifetime, published 2.12.2009. — link
• Vera Kopilova — humorous conversation, published/re-published posthumously.
• TV Marija Miljević Rajšić — long conversation in Pavić's apartment — original broadcaster/date to be identified.
• Greek-Serbian video interview of about 40 minutes — identification open.

Appendix — public conversations and literary evenings with preserved recordings

MASTER 1B — same corpus separated

I. Domestic interviews

II. Foreign interviews