Petar Pijanović
Petar Pijanović (Serbian-Cyrillic: Петар Пијановић ; born 1 July 1949 in Kamenmost, Split-Dalmatia County, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian writer and professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Belgrade. Biography. Petar Pijanović graduated from Imotski secondary school (gymnasium) with maturity in 1968, then he began studying at the Philological faculty Belgrade, graduated with diploma in 1973, with Magister degree in 1976, and obtained his doctorate with thesis on "Poetics of Borislav Pekić’s novels" (Poetika romana Borislava Pekića) in 1989. He worked as journalist of the newspaper Politika (1974–75), as editor of the literary  journal Književne novine of the Association of Writers (1975–81), as teacher at the Tenth Belgrade Gymnasium "Mihajlo Pupin" in New Belgrade (1975–81), was member of leading staff of Zavod za udžbenike (Institute for Publishing of Instructional materials) from 1981 to 2006, and at last he became appointed full professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education in 2006. Pijanović was President of Jury (1995, 2004, 2005) of NIN Award.