Biography

Milovan Vitezović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Витезовић; 11 September 1944 – 22 March 2022) was a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter.

He wrote poems, novels, essays, prose literature for children, reviews, aphorisms, movies and TV scripts. He published more than forty books and was represented in over fifty various anthologies.

His aphorisms were published in a series of European newspapers, such as the Hamburg Stern and Moscow's Sunday Times, and translated into Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Swedish and Italian. Vitezović was one of the few Serbian and Yugoslav contemporary writers, whose books were banned and even burned in its first edition – the collection of aphorisms Srce me je otkucalo. His satirical texts were often published in the Serbian magazine Jež (Hedgehog).

He is the author of numerous television dramas and series, texts for theatrical performances and film scripts.

Vitezović died in March 2022 from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. Vitezović was born in Vitezovići at Kosjerić on 11 September 1944. He was educated in Tubić, Kosjerić, Užice and Belgrade, where he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, department of general literature, and Faculty of Dramatic Arts, department of movies and TV scripts.

He was editor of operating in Književne novine (Literary Newspaper). In the youth magazine Susret omladine (Youth Meeting), he worked as an editor for literature until 1969, and since then as the editor of the journal Čivija (Pins). He was the editor of a feature series on RTS from 1977 to 1991, when he became the editor-in-chief of the RTS Arts and Entertainment Program. He was a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia (and its president from 2018) and the Serbian PEN Center and he also spoke and wrote for Nacionalna revija (National Review), a magazine on the national heritage of Serbia. In 2001, he became an associate professor at the Academy of Arts, Belgrade.