Zoran Živković (writer)
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Zoran Živković (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Живковић) (born October 5, 1948) is a science fiction writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (former Yugoslavia), where he still resides.
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Biography
In 1973, Zoran Živković graduated in literary theory from the Department of General Literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same university. His dissertation, "The Appearance of Science Fiction as a Genre of Artistic Prose," appeared in his Contemporaries of the Future anthology, along with several of the stories discussed.
Also in 1982, Živković founded the Polaris imprint, Yugoslavia's first privately-owned science fiction publishing house, through which he released over a hundred books.
Zoran Živković also wrote and hosted a television series about science fiction cinema, titled "The Starry Screen" ("Zvezdani ekran," 1984). The show later inspired a book of critical essays under the same title.
In 2003, Živković's mosaic novel "The Library" won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
In 2005, Belgrade TV station Studio B produced TV series "The Collector" ("Sakupljač"), based upon Živković's short stories.
Bibliography
Fiction
- The Fourth Circle (Četvrti krug, 1993)
- Time-gifts (Vremenski darovi, 1997)
- The Writer (Pisac, 1998)
- The Book (Knjiga, 1999)
- Impossible Encounters (Nemogući susreti, 2000)
- Seven Touches of Music (Sedam dodira muzike, 2001)
- The Library (Biblioteka, 2002)
- Steps Through the Mist (Koraci kroz maglu, 2003)
- Hidden Camera (Skrivena kamera, 2003)
- Compartments (Vagon, 2004)
- Four Stories Till the End (Četiri priče do kraja, 2004)
- Twelve Collections and The Teashop (Dvanaest zbirki i Čajdžinica, 2005)
Nonfiction
- Contemporaries of the Future (Savremenici budućnosti, 1983)
- The Starry Screen (Zvezdani ekran, 1984)
- First Contact
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction I-II
- Essays on Science Fiction
Anthologies edited
- The Devil In Brisbane (2005)