{"name": "Dejan Stojanovic\u0301", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "source_records": ["marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:241650956:942", "bwb:9798991946667"], "birth_date": "11 March 1959", "alternate_names": ["Dejan Stojanovi\u0107 , Dejan Stojanovic\u0301", "Dejan Stojanovic", "Dejan Stojanovi\u0107"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Dejan Stojanovic was born in Pec, Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia), in 1959. Although a lawyer by education, he has never practiced law and instead became a journalist, working as a foreign correspondent in the early nineties. He is a poet, essayist, philosopher, and businessman. \r\n\r\nHe has published books of poems: \r\n*Circling (Krugovanje)*, Narodna knjiga \u2013 Alfa, Belgrade, three editions \u2013 1993, 1998, and 2000.\r\n*The Sun Observes Itself (Sunce sebe gleda)*, NIP Knji\u017eevna re\u010d, Belgrade, 1999.\r\n*The Sign and its Children (Znak i njegova deca),* Prosveta, Belgrade, 2000.\r\n*The Creator (Tvoritelj),* Narodna knjiga, Belgrade, 2000.\r\n*The Shape (Oblik),* Gramatik, Podgorica, 2000.\r\n*The Dance of Time (Ples vremena),* Konras, Belgrade, 2007.\r\nPentalogy: *The World in Nowherness (Svet u nigdini):* \r\n*1. Ozar (Ozar),* Udru\u017eenje knji\u017eevnika Srbije, Belgrade, 2017.\r\n*2. The World and God (Svet i Bog),* Udru\u017eenje knji\u017eevnika Srbije, Belgrade, 2017.\r\n*3. The World in Nowhereness (Svet u nigdini),* Udru\u017eenje knji\u017eevnika Srbije, 2017.\r\n*4. The World and Humans (Svet i ljudi),* Udru\u017eenje knji\u017eevnika Srbije, Belgrade, 2017.\r\n*5. The Home of Light (Dom svetlosti).* Udru\u017eenje knji\u017eevnika Srbije, Belgrade, 2017.\r\n*The Hidden Light (Skrivena svetlost),* \u010cigoja, Belgrade, 2018.\r\n*Primordial Spark (Iskra iskona),* Albatros plus, Belgrade, 2021.\r\n*Centuries and Steps (Vekovi i koraci),* Albatros plus, Belgrade, 2023.\r\n\r\nEssays:\r\n *Creator and Creating (Stvaralac i stvaranje),* Albatros plus, Belgrade, 2021.\r\n*The New Man and the New World (Novo\u010dovek i novosvet),* Rad, Belgrade, 2022.\r\n\r\n*Anthology: Selected Serbian Plays (Izabrane srpske drame),* USA, 2016.\r\n\r\nA book of his selected interviews entitled *Conversations* was published in 1999 by NIP *Knji\u017eevna re\u010d*, Belgrade, and was awarded the Rastko Petrovi\u0107 Prize by the Serbian Heritage Foundation and the Association of Writers of Serbia for intellectual engagement. The book included interviews with several major American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesic.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn 1986, as a young writer, he was recognized among 200 writers at the Bor (former Yugoslavia) Literary Festival. \r\n\r\nIn addition to poetry and prose, he has worked as a journalist for the Serbian weekly magazine *Pogledi (Views)*."}, "personal_name": "Dejan Stojanovic\u0301", "photos": [6608027, 6254660, 6387654, 6387649, 7151118, 7151167, 7254482, 7151111, 7151110, 7151109, 7151151, 7151156, 7151113, 7151215, 7151165, 7151147, 7151123, 7151122, 7151161, 7151180, 7151126, 7151217, 6254779, 14860573], "remote_ids": {"isni": "000000005312426X", "viaf": "41732846", "wikidata": "Q1183503", "lc_naf": "nr95035476", "opac_sbn": "PUVV450379"}, "key": "/authors/OL326745A", "latest_revision": 45, "revision": 45, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-04T09:13:21.566483"}}