{"id":531,"date":"2013-03-25T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prosefest.rs\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:55:51","slug":"jovica-acin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/2008\/jovica-acin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jovica A\u0107in"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jovica<\/a>Jovica Acin<\/b> (b. 1946, Serbia), a short-story writer and essayist, is the author of twenty books. Several times he was sentenced because of dissenting opinion and so-called insult against the head of state. In hard and oppressive Yugoslav times he was the editor of the books such as The Gulag Archipelago <\/i>by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and likely one of the best Memoirs of the Yugoslav camp called The Desert Island, by Dragoljub Jovanovic.<\/p>\n

For the moment, he lives in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n

Good to know: Acin\u2019s original artistic impulse was to be an alchemist. Before he was a published writer, Acin\u2019s only other jobs were in bookstores and publish\u00ading houses. His first bookstore job was at age 13.<\/p>\n

Short story collections:<\/p>\n

The Long Shadows of the Short Shadows <\/i><\/b>(1991, 21997, 32003)<\/p>\n

To Be Destroyed After My Death <\/i><\/b>(1993, 22000)<\/p>\n

Butterfly Dreambook <\/i><\/b>(1996)<\/p>\n

Unearthly Phenomena <\/i><\/b>(1999)<\/p>\n

Hovering Objects <\/i><\/b>(2002)<\/p>\n

Whoever Wants to Love Has to Die <\/i><\/b>(2002)<\/p>\n

Little Erotic Dictionary of Serbian Language <\/i><\/b>(2003)<\/p>\n

Diary About A Vagina <\/i><\/b>[novella] (2005)<\/p>\n

Read in Your Eyes <\/i><\/b>(2006, <\/i>22007)<\/i><\/p>\n

The Walk on the Roof: Collected Franz Kafka\u2019s Draw\u00adings<\/i><\/b>, with a few stories told by these drawings (2007)<\/p>\n

Forthcoming an essay collection: A Naked Storyteller: On All Kinds of Things Lost and Found <\/i><\/b>(to be pub\u00adlished in September 2008)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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