After a long illness – Serbian writer David Albahari died – Culture




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The Serbian author David Albahari was long considered an insider tip for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has now died at the age of 75.

David Albahari was one of the most important representatives of contemporary (post-)Yugoslav and Serbian literature. He wrote mainly novels and short prose. Most recently, Albahari had Parkinson’s disease, which he addressed in his novel “Today is Wednesday” (2020).

Albahari’s central theme was the family and the manifestation of historical events in individual memories and destinies. In German, he published the novels “Motherland” (2002), “Götz und Meyer” (2003) and “Die Ohrfeige” (2007) as well as the collection of short stories “Die Kuh ist einlones Tier” (2011).

writing from exile

The writer comes from a Jewish family and grew up in the Belgrade suburb of Zemun. As chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, he played a key role in the evacuation of Jews from Sarajevo, which was besieged by Serbs, in 1992.

In 1994, Albahari went into exile in Canada, but later returned to Belgrade for longer periods of time.

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