{"id":20574,"date":"2025-12-15T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?page_id=20574"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:37:32","slug":"biografija-davida-albaharija-david-albaharis-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/biografija-davida-albaharija-david-albaharis-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of David Albahari (1948\u20132023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-520x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-520x650.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-albahari-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>David Albahari was a writer, translator, and academic. Throughout his career, he wrote primarily novels and short stories, often infused with autobiographical elements. He was also an accomplished translator from English and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born into a Jewish-Serbian family, Albahari became president of the Association of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia in 1991 and helped organize the evacuation of Jewish residents from Sarajevo during the war. In 1994, he moved with his family to Canada, where he lived until 2013, before returning to Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albahari\u2019s prose is known for its introspection and complexity\u2014sometimes described as hermetic\u2014but his readership steadily grew, and his works came to be seen as essential links between Serbian literature and the broader currents of world fiction. His debut short story collection,&nbsp;<em>Porodi\u010dno vreme<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Family Time<\/em>, 1973), earned him early recognition as a major voice in Serbian literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhy should the writer be seen as someone who understands things better than any other person?\u201d \u2014&nbsp;<em>from an interview<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of David Albahari\u2019s most notable works include&nbsp;<em>Mamac<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Bait<\/em>, 1996),&nbsp;<em>Pijavice<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Leeches<\/em>, 2006),&nbsp;<em>Kontrolni punkt<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Checkpoint<\/em>, 2011),&nbsp;<em>Words Are Something Else<\/em>&nbsp;(short stories, 1973\u20131993),&nbsp;<em>Learning Cyrillic<\/em>&nbsp;(short stories, 1997\u20132009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each new publication by Albahari was regarded as a literary event. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He also translated numerous English-language authors, including Vladimir Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Sam Shepard, and Sarah Kane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Albahari was a writer, translator, and academic. Throughout his career, he wrote primarily novels and short stories, often infused with autobiographical elements. He was also an accomplished translator from English and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 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