{"id":20278,"date":"2022-11-18T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:45:43","slug":"aleksandar-tisma-1924-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2022\/11\/aleksandar-tisma-1924-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandar Ti\u0161ma (1924\u20132003)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Aleksandar Ti\u0161ma was a novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, and academic. He studied English language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1944, he joined the National Liberation Movement and later worked as a journalist in Novi Sad. Ti\u0161ma spent much of his professional life at Matica Srpska<\/em>, first as secretary and later as editor, including six years as editor of Letopis Matice Srpske<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His writing\u2014translated into more than twenty languages\u2014explores themes of the Holocaust, human cruelty, and moral complexity. He is regarded as one of the most important Yugoslav writers of the twentieth century. Ti\u0161ma\u2019s best-known novel, Upotreba \u010doveka<\/em> (The Use of a Man<\/em>, 1976), earned him the Nolit Award, the NIN Award, and the Serbian Library\u2019s Award for the most-read book of 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His ouvre includes works such asBegunci<\/em> (Fugitives<\/em>, 1981), Vere i zavere<\/em> (Faith and Treason<\/em>, 1983), Kapo<\/em> (1987), \u0160iroka vrata<\/em> (The Wide Door<\/em>, 1989), Koje volimo<\/em> (Those We Love<\/em>, 1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s like people. Even nations borrow from each other. Nothing is born in a vacuum, nothing develops from itself alone\u2026 All life is imitation.\u201d \u2014 The Use of a Man<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2016 the \u201cAleksandar Ti\u0161ma\u201d Foundation was established, which since 2019 has awarded the annual \u201cAleksandar Ti\u0161ma\u201d Literary Prize. The first laureate was Hungarian writer Darvasi L\u00e1szl\u00f3 for his book Winter Morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandar Ti\u0161ma je bio romanopisac, pesnik, pripoveda\u010d, dramski pisac, urednik i akademik. Studirao je engleski jezik i knji\u017eevnost na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godine 1944. pridru\u017eio se NOB-u, a kasnije je radio kao novinar u Novom Sadu. Ve\u0107i deo svog profesionalnog \u017eivota proveo je u Matici Srpskoj, najpre kao sekretar, a kasnije kao urednik, uklju\u010duju\u0107i \u0161est godina kao urednik \u010dasopisa Letopis Srpske Matice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Njegovo pisanje, prevedeno na vi\u0161e od dvadeset jezika, bavi se temama Holokausta, ljudske okrutnosti i moralne kompleksnosti. Smatra se jednim od najva\u017enijih jugoslovenskih pisaca dvadesetog veka. Njegov najpoznatiji roman, Upotreba \u010doveka<\/em> (1976), doneo mu je Nolitovu nagradu, NIN-ovu nagradu i nagradu Narodne biblioteke Srbije za naj\u010ditaniju knjigu 1978. godine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Njegov opus obuhvata dela Begunci<\/em> (1981), Vere i zavere<\/em> (1983), Kapo<\/em> (1987), \u0160iroka vrata<\/em> (1989), i Koje volimo<\/em> (1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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,,”Kao i me\u0111u ljudima”, rekao je pa\u017eljivo uzaslu\u0161alom mladi\u0107u, “ugledanje postoji i me\u0111u narodima. Ni\u0161ta ne nastaje samoniklo, ni\u0161ta se ne razvija samo iz sebe, ako neko to tvrdi onda tvrdi la\u017e, obi\u010dno da bi uzdigao sredinu kojoj ba\u0161 pripada. U stvari, sve u \u017eivotu je podra\u017eavanje.” – Upotreba \u010doveka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U 2016. godini osnovana je Fondacija \u201eAleksandar Ti\u0161ma\u201c, koja je od 2019. godine dodeljuje godi\u0161nju knji\u017eevnu nagradu \u201eAleksandar Ti\u0161ma\u201c. Prvi dobitnik bio je ma\u0111arski pisac Darvasi L\u00e1szl\u00f3 za njegovu knjigu Zimsko jutro<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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