Branislav Crnčević


Branislav "Brana" Crnčević was a Serbian writer and politician.
Throughout his decades-long career, he wrote novels, aphorisms, short stories, TV dramas, poems and children's literature.

Biography

Crnčević was born on 8 February 1933 in Kovačica and was raised in Ruma. After the death of his father, he spent his childhood in orphanages and foster homes.
He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He began his career as an employee of the Zrenjanin brewery regional office in Novi Sad. He then worked as a journalist and editor in the newspapers Jež and Duga along with the newspaper for children called Mali jež. He also published columns in various newspapers and magazines such as NIN and Politika. In the meantime, he published his first children's book Bosonogi i nebo and later his first collection of aphorisms Piši kao što ćutiš. He entered into the literary scene under the pseudonyms Vinon Rumski and Branislav BIP.
He was one of the screenwriters for the 1987 film The Harms Case.

Death and legacy

Crnčević died on 14 April 2011 after a long illness. He is interred in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the Belgrade New Cemetery in a joint plot with Milutin Čolić, Mladen Srbinović and Momo Kapor.
The cultural center in Ruma is named after him. In September 2016, a street in the Vračar municipality of the city of Belgrade was named after him.

Works