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11.30.2020. 22:25
Brana Scepanovic, Photo: print screen
Today, Brana Šćepanović (1937), one of the most widely translated Serbian and Yugoslav writers, passed away at the Bežanija Nursing Home, writer and editor Zoran Živković announced on social media.
His novel “A mouthful of earth” has long exceeded the circulation of 100,000 copies in our country, while it has experienced up to 23 editions in French.
The novel “The Death of Mr. Goluža” entered several world anthologies and, in 2008, Nolit published the selected works of Branimir Šćepanović.
Šćepanović’s stories were printed as books in French, Greek, Hungarian, Slovenian, and Bulgarian, and individually (in newspapers and magazines) in many other languages. Eighteen anthologies have been included in our country and abroad.
He received: the First Prize for short stories at the Belgrade Yugoslavia Young Writers Festival in 1956, the First Prize for Short stories at the Literary Newspaper Competition in 1964 and the October Prize of the City of Belgrade for the novel Usta puna zemlje in 1974. He also won two Golden Sands for the screenplay (Battle of Sutjeska) at the Pula festivals (1963 and 1973).
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