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Pekić Borislav
(1930—1992)

Borislav Pekić is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. He was born on 4th February 1930 to a prominent family in Montenegro and died in London on 2nd July 1992. From 1945 until he moved to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. After WW-II, Pekic co-founded and led as VP the secret "Yugoslav Democratic Youth" organization. Due to his opposition to the Communist regime, he was arrested in 1948 and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but released after 5 years. 1958 marked the year of his marriage to Ljiljana Glišić, an architect and the niece of Dr Milan Stojadinović, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935-1939) and the publication of his first of over twenty film scripts, among which "The Fourteenth Day" represented Yugoslavia at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. This success did however not soften the official ban issued by the ruling Communist Regime on the publication of any of Pekic's literary works. His first book, "Time of Miracles", was only published in 1965, many years after the manuscript had been completed. Despite decades of communist boycott, Pekic's literary genius proved indomitable in the end.

Serbia, 2007, Danilo Bata Stojković as Simeon Njegovan Lupus

Serbia, 2010, Borislav Pekić