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Serbian literature is literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia. Serbian culture refers to the culture of Serbia as well as the culture of Serbs in other parts of the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere in the world Serbia (both as an independent country and as part a part of former Yugoslavia has been home to many internationally acclaimed films and directors Serbian epic poetry (Српске епске народне песме is a form of Epic poetry originating in the Serbian lands, today's Serbia, The Music of the Serbian people and Serbia presents a mixture of the traditional music which is part of the wider Balkan tradition with its own distinctive Serbian hip hop refers to all genres of Hip hop music in the Serbian language, mostly from Serbia, Republika Srpska ( BiH) and Serbian rock is the Rock music scene of Serbia. During the 1950s 1960s 1970s and the 1980s while Serbia was a constituent republic inside Socialist Turbo-folk is a popular musical sub-genre that originated in Serbia, Balkans during early 1990s Serbian dance is an old tradition and strong element in the Serbian culture. The territory of today's Serbia has been inhabited since pre-historical times The Serbian Orthodox Church ( Serbian: Српска Православна Црква / Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva; СПЦ / SPC) or the The Sport in Serbia revolves mostly around team sports football, Basketball, Water polo, Volleyball, Handball, and more Traditional Serbian costumes like any other Traditional dress of a nation or culture has been lost to the advent of Urbanization, Industrialization, and The Serbian language is one of the richest languages regarding Kinship terminology The Serbian cuisine is a heterogeneous one influenced by Mediterranean ( Byzantine Empire / Greece) Oriental (Turkish and Austro-Hungarian Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, Serbia (Србија Srbija) officially the Republic of Serbia (Република Србија Republika Srbija) is a Landlocked Country
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Periodization
Medieval literature
The oldest manuscript book and a monument of Old-Serbian literacy is Miroslav's Gospel (Serbian: Мирославово јеванђеље / Miroslavovo jevandjelje), a 362-page liturgic book written between 1180 and 1191 in a transitional form between Old Church Slavonic and Slavoserbian. Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide Time into discrete named blocks Medieval literature is a broad subject encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe beyond and during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand Miroslav Gospels ( Serbian Мирослављево Јевађеље or Miroslavljevo Jevanđelje) is a 362-page Illuminated manuscript Gospel Book Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, to make sure old Cyrillic letters are displayed properly (For example instead of just Ѣ write Ѣ The Slavonic-Serbian language (славяносербскій / slavjanoserbskij or словенскій slovenskij; славеносрпски / slavenosrpski It was written by two monk pupils, Grigorije and probably Varsameleon, on a white parchment paper for Miroslav, the Duke of Zahumlje, brother of King Stefan Nemanja. MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation Verb "studēre" Parchment is a thin material made from Calfskin, Sheepskin or goatskin. A duke is a member of the Nobility, historically of highest rank below the Sovereign, and historically controlled a Duchy or a Dukedom Zachlumia ( Croatian: Zahumlje Serbian: Захумље also known as the Land of the Hum and Chelm, was a Medieval Stefan Nemanja ( Old Church Slavonic: Стѣфань Serbian: Стефан
Miroslav's Gospel explains the origin of the Cyrillic script, the letters in it are a masterpiece of calligraphy and illustrations are daring and magnificent miniatures, vignettes and initials. The Cyrillic alphabet (səˈrɪlɪk also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters is actually a family of Alphabets, subsets of which are used by Calligraphy (from Greek kallos "beauty" + graphẽ "writing" is the art of writing (Mediavilla 1996 17 In a written work an initial is a letter at the beginning of a work a Chapter or a Paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text For centuries Miroslav's Gospel has been kept in the Hilandar monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on Mount Athos, Greece. Hilandar (Хиландар - Hilandar Χιλανδαρίου Хилендар Hilendar) is a Serbian Orthodox Monastery on Mount The Serbian Orthodox Church ( Serbian: Српска Православна Црква / Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva; СПЦ / SPC) or the Mount Athos (Όρος Άθως is a mountain on the Peninsula of the same name in Macedonia, of northern Greece, called in Greek Άγιον Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία In 2005 Miroslav's Gospel was entered into UNESCO program Memory of the World. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16
However, the most beautifully written and decorated manuscript remains Serbian Psalter of Munich, created in the last quarter of 14. century.
The other monumental inscription from this same period is the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, dedicated to the Catholic coastal areas of the Serbian state of Dioclea, that would later convert fully to Orthodox Christianity. The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja ( Presbyter Diocleas) also known as "Slavonic Kingdom" ( Sclavorum Regnum) is a medieval Chronicle originally Duklja or Diokletija ( Serbian Cyrillic: Дукља or Диоклетија; Latin: Doclea or Diocleia; The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world
Oral literature
Medieval Serbian literature was dominated by folk songs and epics passed orally from generation to generation. Oral literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral word to Literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word Oral literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral word to Literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word Historic events, such as the "Battle of Kosovo" (Serbian: Бој на Косову / Boj na Kosovu) in the 14th century play a major role in the development of the Serbian epic poetry. This page is about the Battle of Kosovo of 1389; for other battles see Battle of Kosovo (disambiguation. Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, Serbian epic poetry (Српске епске народне песме is a form of Epic poetry originating in the Serbian lands, today's Serbia,
Baroque
Serbian literature in Vojvodina continued building onto Medieval tradition, influenced by Russian baroque, which culminated in Slavoserbian language. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина or Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina; Hungarian: Vajdaság This article is about literature from Russia For the song by Maxïmo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc The Slavonic-Serbian language (славяносербскій / slavjanoserbskij or словенскій slovenskij; славеносрпски / slavenosrpski Most important authors of the time are Đorđe Branković, Gavril Stefanović-Venclović, Jovan Rajić and Zaharije Orfelin. Jovan Rajić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Рајић (1726-1801 was a famous Serbian Writer, Historian, and Pedagogue Zaharije Orfelin ( Serbian Cyrillic: Захарије Орфелин Vukovar, 1726 - Novi Sad, 1785 was a prominent Serbian writer and poet
Pre-Romantism
One of the first countries to win independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Serbian independence movement sparked the first works of modern Serbian literature. Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Most notably Petar II Petrović Njegoš and his Mountain Wreath of 1847, represent a cornerstone of the Serbian epic, which was based on the rhythms of the folk songs. Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( Serbian Cyrillic: Петар II Петровић-Његош was a Serb Orthodox Prince-Bishop ( Serbian: Владика Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common
Furthermore, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, a friend of J. W. von Goethe, became the first person to collect folk songs and epics and to publish them in a book. Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић ( November 7, 1787 - February 7, 1864 ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Vuk Karadžić is regarded as the premier Serbian philologist, who together with Đuro Daničić played a major role in reforming the modern Serbian language, though in recent times his work has been widely criticized for destroying the ethos of the Serbian language. See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology" Đuro Daničić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Даничић ( April 4 1825 in Novi Sad – November 17 1882 in Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language,
Modern literature
In the 20th century, Serbian literature flourished and a myriad of young and talented writers appeared. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Ivo Andrić published The Bridge on the Drina (На Дрини ћуприја / Na Drini ćuprija) in 1945, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Ivo Andrić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић October 9, 1892 &ndash March 13, 1975) was a novelist Short story The Bridge on Drina (На Дрини ћуприја or sh ''Na Drini ćuprija'' is a novel written by Ivo Andrić, writer from Yugoslavia, who was awarded Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Since Andrić, Danilo Kiš is regarded as one of the most notable Serbian authors, alongside writers such as Miloš Crnjanski, Meša Selimović, Borislav Pekić, Milorad Pavić, Dobrica Ćosić, Goran Petrović, Zoran Živković and many others. Danilo Kiš ( Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Киш) ( February 22, 1935 &ndash October 15, 1989) was a Yugoslavian Miloš Crnjanski (in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански (1893-1977 was a leading poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism author Mehmedalija "Meša" Selimović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмедалија "Меша" Селимовић ( 26 April 1910 - 11 July Borislav Pekić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Борислав Пекић) (Born in Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, February 4 Milorad Pavić (Милорад Павић (born October 15, 1929 in Belgrade) is a noted Serbian Poet, Prose writer Dobrica Ćosić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Добрица Ћосић (born December 29, 1921 in Velika Drenova, near Trstenik, in the Goran Petrović ( Serbian Cyrillic - Горан Петровић) (born in 1961 in Kraljevo, Zoran Živković ( Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Живковић (born October 5 1948 is a Writer, Essayist, researcher publisher and Translator Jelena Dimitrijevic and Isidora Sekulić are two early twentieth century women writers. Jelena Dimitrijević (born 1862 was a Serbian woman writer of the late-19th and early 20th century Isidora Sekulić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Исидора Секулић) (1877-1958 was a famous Serbian prose writer novelist essayist adventurer polyglot Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic is the best known female author in Serbia today.
Milorad Pavić is perhaps the most widely acclaimed Serbian author today, most notably for his Dictionary of the Khazars (Хазарски речник / Hazarski rečnik), which has been translated into 24 languages. Dictionary of the Khazars A Lexicon Novel is the first novel by Serbian writer Milorad Pavich (Milorad Pavić published in 1984
English translations of modern Serbian literature
Andric, Ivo, The Bridge on the Drina, The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Kis, Danilo, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, translated by Translated by Duska Mikic-Mitchell, Penguin Books, 1980. Pekic, Borislav, The Time of Miracles (Writings from an Unbound Europe), translated by Lovett F. Edwards, Northwestern University Press, 1994. Pekic, Borislav, The Houses of Belgrade (Writings from an Unbound Europe), translated by Bernard Johnson, Northwestern University Press, 1994.
External links
- Serbian Language and Literature
- Selected Literatures and Authors Page - Serbian, Montenegrin, and Yugoslav Literature
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