{"id":20284,"date":"2022-11-18T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?p=20284"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:30:18","slug":"judita-salgo-1941-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/2022\/11\/judita-salgo-1941-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Judita \u0160algo (1941\u20131996)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Judita \u0160algo was a writer, essayist, and translator from Hungarian and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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 Matica Srpska<\/em>, though she was eventually dismissed, allegedly for political reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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>\n\n\n\n

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 Put u Birobid\u017ean<\/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>\n\n\n\n

Some of her most reknowned works are 67 Minuta naglas<\/em> (67 Minutes Out Loud<\/em>, 1980), \u017divot na stolu<\/em> (Life on the Table<\/em>, 1986), Da li postoji \u017eivot<\/em> (Does Life Exist?<\/em>, short stories, 1995), and the unfinished novel Kraj puta<\/em> (End of the Road<\/em>, 2004), a continuation of The Road to Birobidzhan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1998, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vojvodina Writers\u2019 Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judita \u0160algo<\/strong> bila je knji\u017eevnica, esejistkinja i prevodilac sa ma\u0111arskog i engleskog jezika. Ro\u0111ena je u Novom Sadu u jevrejskoj porodici, \u0161to je duboko oblikovalo njen identitet i knji\u017eevni senzibilitet. Tokom Drugog svetskog rata, njeni roditelji su odvedeni u koncentracione logore \u2013 otac je stradao, dok je njena majka uspela da se spasi i vrati u Novi Sad. Do maj\u010dinog povratka, o Juditi je brinula ma\u0111arska \u017eena koja je postala gotovo druga majka. Teme maj\u010dinstva, zamenljivosti mati\u010dnih figura i pitanja identiteta postali su centralni motivi u njenom \u017eivotu i delu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nakon rata i povratka majke, Judita je po\u010dela da u\u010di srpski jezik, s obzirom da je ma\u0111arski bio njen maternji. Diplomirala je na odseku za Op\u0161tu knji\u017eevnost i teoriju knji\u017eevnosti u Beogradu, a kasnije je radila kao urednica u Matici srpskoj, iako je na kraju otpu\u0161tena, navodno iz politi\u010dkih razloga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Njena rani knji\u017eevni rad bio je povezan sa neoavangardnim pokretom koji je nastao u Novom Sadu tokom \u0161ezdesetih i sedamdesetih godina kao odgovor na jugoslovenski modernizam. Taj pokret odlikovao se eksperimentisanjem, prvenstveno u jeziku. Kasnije, \u0160algo je pre\u0161la na roman i postmodernisti\u010dku poetiku, stvaraju\u0107i svoje najzapa\u017eenije delo, roman Put u Birobid\u017ean<\/em>. Iako nikada nije sebe izri\u010dito smatrala feministkinjom, \u010desto je u svom pisanju istra\u017eivala \u017eenska iskustva i perspektive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neka od njenih najpoznatijih dela su 67 minuta naglas<\/em> (1980), \u017divot na stolu<\/em> (1986), Da li postoji \u017eivot?<\/em> (pri\u010de, 1995), i nedovr\u0161eni roman Kraj puta<\/em> (2004), nastavak Puta u Birobid\u017ean<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godine 1998. dobila je Nagradu za \u017eivotno delo od Dru\u0161tva pisaca Vojvodine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. During World War II, her parents were taken to concentration…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[355],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20586,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20284\/revisions\/20586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}