{"id":20587,"date":"2025-12-15T14:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?page_id=20587"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:37:43","slug":"biografija-judite-salgo-biography-of-judita-salgo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/biografija-judite-salgo-biography-of-judita-salgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Judita \u0160algo (1941\u20131996)"},"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\/20-judita-1-520x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-520x650.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20-judita-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Judita \u0160algo was a writer, essayist, and translator from Hungarian and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born in Novi Sad into a Jewish family, a background that deeply shaped both her personal life and her literary sensibility. During World War II, her parents were taken to concentration camps\u2014her father was killed, while her mother survived and later returned to Novi Sad. Until her mother\u2019s return, Judita was cared for by a Hungarian woman who became like a second mother to her. The themes of motherhood, substitute maternal figures, and questions of identity would remain central to her life and creative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the war, and following her mother\u2019s return, Judita began learning Serbian, as Hungarian had been her native language. She graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory in Belgrade and later worked as an editor at&nbsp;<em>Matica Srpska<\/em>, though she was eventually dismissed, allegedly for political reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t know how things stand in the lunatic asylums and brothels of Europe, but everything is fine here.\u201d \u2013 The Road to Birobidzhan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her early writing was associated with the neo-avant-garde movement that emerged in Novi Sad during the 1960s and 1970s as a response to Yugoslav modernism. This movement was marked by experimentation, particularly in language. Later, \u0160algo turned toward novel writing and postmodernist poetics, producing her most acclaimed work, the novel&nbsp;<em>Put u Birobid\u017ean<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>The Road to Birobidzhan<\/em>). Although she never explicitly identified as a feminist, she often explored women\u2019s experiences and perspectives in her writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of her most reknowned works are&nbsp;<em>67 Minuta naglas<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>67 Minutes Out Loud<\/em>, 1980),&nbsp;<em>\u017divot na stolu<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Life on the Table<\/em>, 1986),&nbsp;<em>Da li postoji \u017eivot<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Does Life Exist?<\/em>, short stories, 1995), and the unfinished novel&nbsp;<em>Kraj puta<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>End of the Road<\/em>, 2004), a continuation of&nbsp;<em>The Road to Birobidzhan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vojvodina Writers\u2019 Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judita \u0160algo was a writer, essayist, and translator from Hungarian and English. She was born in Novi Sad into a Jewish family, a background that deeply shaped both her personal life and her literary sensibility. 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