Predrag Matvejević
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Born |
Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 7 October 1932
Occupation | Activist, writet |
Predrag Matvejević (born 7 October 1932) is a Bosnian Croat writer and political activist. His book Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape has been a bestseller in many European countries, and has been translated into more than 20 languages.[1]
Biography
Matvejević was born in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time Kingdom of Yugoslavia) to a Croat mother and a Russian father.[2] He attended Gimnazija "Aleksa Šantić" in Mostar before enrolling in the University of Sarajevo. He emigrated to France in 1991, but from 1994 to 2008 he lived in Italy. He became a naturalised Italian citizen.
Matvejević taught at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (New Sorbonne) in Paris as well as in the Sapienza in Rome.[3] He is the past President and now a lifelong honorary Vice-President of the PEN International.
He is a member of the advisory board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.[4]
Defamation trial
In November 2001, Matvejević published an essay-length article, "Our Talibans", in Jutarnji list. In that article he accused some writers of war mongering during the Yugoslav Wars, among them Mile Pešorda, who filed a defamation lawsuit; the trial started in March 2003. On 2 November 2005, Matvejević was found guilty on the charge of defamation. He was sentenced to five months' probation and ordered to publish the verdict at his own cost in Jutarnji list and to pay 5,000 kuna (circa $1000) in trial costs. Matvejević did not appeal. He stated that an appeal would be an acknowledgment of the verdict and the ones who issued it. On 20 December 2005, the verdict was upheld by an appeals court.[5][6][7]
Works (incomplete)
(Most of his books have appeared in Croatian, Italian and French editions)
- Sartre (essay, 1965)
- Razgovori s Krležom (1969, with several reprints up to 1987)
- Prema novom kulturnom stvaralaštvu (1975)
- Književnost i njezina društvena funkcija (1977)
- Te vjetrenjače (1977)
- Jugoslavenstvo danas (Beograd, 1984)
- Otvorena pisma: moralne vjezbe (1985)
- Mediteranski brevijar (1987)[8]
- Istočni epistolar (1995)
- Gospodari rata i mira (with V. Stevanović and Z. Dizdarević, 2000)
- Druga Venecija (2002)
- Le monde «ex» - Confessions (Paris, 1996)
- Poésie de circonstance (PhD Thesis 1967, Sorbonne)
- Pour une poétique de l'événement (Paris, 1979)
- La Méditerranée et l'Europe - Leçons au College de France (Paris, 1998)
- L'Ile-Méditerranée (Paris, 2000)
- Epistolario dell’altra Europa (Garzanti, Milan 1992)
- De la dissidence (essay, 1993)
- Sarajevo (Motta, Milan 1995)
- Ex Jugoslavia. Diario di una guerra (Magma, Milan 1995)
- Tra asilo ed esilio (Meltemi, Rome 1998)
- Il Mediterraneo e l’Europa (Garzanti, Milan 1998)
- I signori della guerra (Garazanti, Milan 1999)
- Un’Europa maledetta (Baldini e Castoldi, Milan 2005)
Notes
- ↑ Pleše, Mladen (20 February 2016). "Ugledni talijanski književnici predlažu Predraga Matvejevića za Nobelovu nagradu za književnost: Šezdesetak književnika potpisalo je i objavilo prijedlog". Telegram (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ↑ "Predrag Matvejevic' Official Homepage". Giardini.sm. 5 November 2005. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ↑ Kordić, Snježana (2013). "Kozmopolit o jeziku" [Cosmopolitan about language] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb. 11 (4-6): 94. ISSN 1334-1057. OCLC 70236267. ZDB-ID 2122129-7. Archived from the original on 10 August 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2015. (NSK). (CEEOL).
- ↑ O Novom Plamenu, noviplamen.org; retrieved October 2008.
- ↑ Piše: utorak (20 December 2005). "Presuda Predragu Matvejeviću postala pravomoćnom". Index.hr. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ↑ "Legalis - hrvatski pravni portal". Legalis.hr. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ↑ Pravosudni autogol, vjesnik.hr; accessed 20 October 2016. (Croatian)
- ↑ Written in Serbo-Croatian, this book has been reprinted many times and translated into more than twenty languages
Sources
- (Italian) Official homepage