birth_date: 1930-02-20 00:00:00
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name: Miodrag Bulatović
about: Miodrag Bulatović was a Montenegrin novelist and playwright. He began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Đavoli dolaze ("The Devils Are Coming", translated as Stop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His best novel was, however, The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of north-eastern Montenegro. This was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. Bulatović then stopped publishing for a time, to protest interference in his work. His next novel, Hero on a Donkey was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia. In 1975, he won the prestigious NIN Award for novel of the year for People with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life. The Fifth Finger was Miodrag Bulatović was a Montenegrin novelist and playwright. He began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Đavoli dolaze ("The Devils Are Coming", translated as Stop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His best novel was, however, The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of north-eastern Montenegro. This was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. Bulatović then stopped publishing for a time, to protest interference in his work. His next novel, Hero on a Donkey was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia. In 1975, he won the prestigious NIN Award for novel of the year for People with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life. The Fifth Finger was a sequel to that book. His last novel was Gullo Gullo, which brought together various themes from his previous books. ...more
death_date: 1991-03-15 00:00:00