In June, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts presented a major publishing project comprising nine scholarly volumes by Milorad Pavić, published by the National Library of Serbia and the Miloš Crnjanski Cultural Centre of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. The speakers were the editor of the edition, Professor Emeritus Sava Damjanov, Professor Aleksandar Jerkov, Professor Slobodan Grubačić, Director of the SASA Library, and Jasmina Ninkov, Director of the National Library of Serbia.
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RTS — Milorad Pavić's literary-historical essays presented at SASA
In Russia, an omnibus edition of The Star Cape and Writing Box was published, as well as a collection of short stories entitled Record in the Sign of Virgo. In Kuwait, Dictionary of the Khazars appeared in Arabic for the first time, while new editions of the same novel are due to be published in Mongolia and Azerbaijan in September. Interestingly, until now, the only Pavić novel translated into Mongolian was The Inner Side of the Wind.
In June, Moscow hosted DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS, a dinner-performance accompanied by a seven-course tasting menu and based on Milorad Pavić's cult novel. The production was staged at Community and directed by Varvara Obidor.
And finally, a reminder: which book represents Serbia on the literary map of the world?
