34 Facts About Stanislav Vinaver

Stanislav Vinaver was a Serbian writer, poet, translator and journalist.

Stanislav Vinaver studied at the University of Paris, volunteered to fight in the Balkan Wars and later took part in World War I as an officer in the Royal Serbian Army.

Stanislav Vinaver travelled to France and the United Kingdom the following year, delivering lectures about Serbia and its people.

Stanislav Vinaver survived the invasion, but was captured by the Germans and interned at a prisoner-of-war camp near Osnabruck.

The Yugoslav monarchy had been replaced with a communist government under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito, and Stanislav Vinaver's works were blacklisted due to his Serbian nationalist views and modernist style.

Stanislav Vinaver worked as a translator in the immediate post-war years and served as the editor of a literary journal until his death in 1955, aged 64.

Stanislav Vinaver is considered one of the key representatives of the Serbian and Yugoslav literary avant-garde.

Stanislav Vinaver was born in Sabac on 1 March 1891.

Stanislav Vinaver's father Josif was a physician and his mother Ruza was a pianist and Polish-language translator.

Stanislav Vinaver attended high school in Sabac until 1908, when he transferred to a high school in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

Stanislav Vinaver attended the lectures of the philosopher Henri Bergson and the anthropologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl, and studied music under Wanda Landowska.

In 1912, Stanislav Vinaver returned to Serbia to enlist in the Royal Serbian Army and fight in the Balkan Wars.

Stanislav Vinaver distinguished himself in action and was deemed a war hero by his contemporaries.

Stanislav Vinaver took part in the retreat, and in 1916, he was appointed the editor-in-chief of Srpske Novine.

Later that year, Stanislav Vinaver was dispatched to France and the United Kingdom by Slobodan Jovanovic, the head of the Serbian military press bureau, to deliver lectures about Serbia and the Serbian people.

Stanislav Vinaver was accompanied by the philosopher Branislav Petronijevic and the bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic.

In 1917, Stanislav Vinaver joined the Serbian diplomatic mission in Petrograd, working as a translator.

Stanislav Vinaver arrived in Petrograd about a month before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, and witnessed the political and social upheaval that it caused.

At the war's end, Stanislav Vinaver held the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Stanislav Vinaver nearly lost his job following a dispute with the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ante Trumbic.

In 1920, the artistic department was shut down following a government reshuffling, and Trumbic's antagonism precluded Stanislav Vinaver from taking up further government positions.

Stanislav Vinaver took up journalism full-time and became one of interwar Yugoslavia's most prolific columnists.

Stanislav Vinaver was a convert to Serbian Orthodoxy and identified as a Serb, despite his Jewish heritage.

Stanislav Vinaver was married to an ethnic German woman named Elsa.

Stanislav Vinaver survived the invasion, but was captured by the Wehrmacht and interned at a prisoner-of-war camp near Osnabruck.

The Yugoslav monarchy had been replaced with a communist government under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito, and the publication of Stanislav Vinaver's works was discouraged, alongside those of writers such as Jovan Ducic and Milos Crnjanski.

Stanislav Vinaver worked as a translator in the immediate post-war years.

Stanislav Vinaver died in Niska Banja on 1 August 1955.

Stanislav Vinaver authored the first avant-garde programmatic text in Serbian literature, Manifest ekspresionisticke skole.

Stanislav Vinaver often resorted to burlesque and used parody as a means of mocking both friends and enemies, the weak and the powerful, as well as the avant-garde, and even himself.

Stanislav Vinaver's poetry was written in free verse, with exclusive emphasis placed on sound rather than semantics.

Stanislav Vinaver sporadically resorted to Greco-Roman mythology as a literary device, referring to the Classics ironically, naming texts after well known myths, or referencing them to reinforce an argument.

Stanislav Vinaver is considered one of the key representatives of the Serbian and Yugoslav literary avant-garde.

The Stanislav Vinaver Award is presented for artistic excellence in the writing of short stories.