Ljubomir Simović


Ljubomir Simović is a Serbian poet, short story writer, playwright, and scriptwriter of TV dramas and movies. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works have been translated in more than twenty languages.

Biography

Simović was born in Town of Uzice, where he finished Gymnasium and Teacher's school. He graduated at Faculty of Philology at University of Belgrade. He writes poems, novels, essays, literary criticism, but he is best known for his plays. He wrote 4 plays: Hasanaginica, A Miracle in Sargan, Traveling theatre Sopalovic and The Battle of Kosovo. His works have been translated into almost all European languages and his plays were performed in almost all theatres in Serbia. Also his plays were performed in France, Hungary, Czhez Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Macedonia, Canada, Mexico, Maroco.
In 1996. he published "A chronicle, which is occasionally a novel, or a novel, which is occasionally a chronicle" about his hometown called "Uzice with the Crows".
His selected works have been published in 12 books in 2008.

Works