Radoslav Bratić

Radoslav Bratić (Brestice, near Bileće, Republika Srpska, 28 June 1948 - Belgrade, Serbia, 2 June 2016) was a Serbian writer, playwright and editor. He was also a corresponding member Academy of Sciences and Arts of Republika Srpska.
== Biography ==
Radoslav Bratić was born in Brestice near Bileće. He finished primary school in Korita (near Bileća) and in Bileća, high school in Trebinje, and studied Yugoslav and world literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He was the editor of the student magazine Znak, the magazine Književnost, the newspaper Književna reč, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine Relasion.
He worked as a secretary and vice-president of the Association of Writers of Serbia, then as an editor in the publishing house "BIGZ", where he edited a dozen libraries. Among other books, he edited the collected works Slobodan Jovanović, Danilo Kiš, a set of books Borislav Pekić, as well as the edition "New Books of Domestic Writers". He started the famous library "Conversations with Writers" and published several books in it. He also prepared the book Prayers and Petitions of His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle.
Bratić made several selections in literature and edited several thematic blocks in newspapers and magazines, including literature China, India, Lusatian Serbs, and American blacks.
His short stories have been included in several anthologies and anthologies in Yugoslavia and around the world, and have been translated into English, Hindi, German, Swedish, Polish, Czech, French, Chinese, Romanian, Russian and Italian. Bratic travelled to all these places and established cooperation with important people. As a result of this collaboration, a number of works in English, Hindi and other languages ​​were created.
He was elected a corresponding member ANURS outside the staff on 4 December 2015.
He has also written several plays for radio and television. Alone or with associates, he prepared several anthologies of texts from foreign literature (Sorbian Serbs, Chinese, Indian, American blacks). As an editor at BIGZ, he edited a dozen libraries of domestic and foreign literature.
He has received numerous important awards: Mladost List, Isidora Sekulić Award, Ivo Andrić Award, Ćamil Sijarić Award, Meša Selimović Award, Borbina Award, Petar Kočić Award 1999, Miloš Crnjanski Plaque, Golden Charter of Tsar Dušan, Svetozar Ćorović and others.
He lived and worked in Belgrade. He died on 2 June 2016 in the settlement Kumodraž, in Belgrade in his apartment after a long and severe illness. He was buried in Alley of the Greats at the Belgrade New Cemetery. 
== Papers ==
== Novels ==
* Smrt Spasitelja (Death of the Savior), "Narodna knjiga", Belgrade 2003;
* A new edition in 2006 was published under the title "Death of the Savior";
* Sumnja u biografiju (Doubt in the biography) ("Prosveta", Belgrade, 1980, 1981 and pocket edition 1993);
* Trg soli ("Narodna knjiga", Belgrade 2002)
*Šeherezadin Ljubavnik
*Slika bez oca (1985)
*Strah od zvona (2000)
*Najlepše priče Radoslava Bratića (2003)
== Short stories ==
* Books of short stories Painting without a Father ("Prosveta", Belgrade 1985, 1986 and paperback BIGZ, 1992)
* Fear of the bell (SKZ, Round No. 84, Belgrade 1991, 1992, 1993 and BIGZ, 2000),
* Zima u Herzegovini i druge priče (Winter in Herzegovina and Other Stories), SKZ, Belgrade, 1995 and 2001. 
* Book of essays and reviews Writer and Document ("Raška School", Belgrade 2000).
== Anthologies and elections prepared by Radoslav Bratić ==
* Chinese literature (together with Ljiljana N. Jamagiši and Nada Saratlić), "Gradac", Čačak, 1975
* Literature of Sorbian Serbs ("Steps", Kragujevac, 1984)
* Anthology of short stories by American blacks (together with Gabriel Arc, "Light", Kragujevac, 1984)
* An anthology of short stories
== References ==
==External links==
* Projekat Rastko Radoslav Bratic, writer
* Radoslav Bratic (Author of Zima u Hercegovini) - Goodreads
* IN MEMORIAM: RADOSLAV BRATIĆ (1948 – 2016) | Prosveta
* Pisac i dokument - Radoslav Bratić - Google Books
* Strah Od Zvona - Radoslav Bratic - Google Books
* Bratić, Radoslav 1948- worldCat Identities
* Radoslav Bratić - autor - Knjizara.com
Category:1948 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Serbian writers
Category:Serbian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Serbian editors
Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
Category:Serbian people