Zoran Živković (writer)
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Zoran Živković (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Живковић) (born October 5, 1948) is a science fiction writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator from Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia), where he still resides.
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[edit] Biography
In 1973, Zoran Živković graduated in literary theory from the Department of General Literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master's degree in 1979 with the work “Antropomorphism and the motif of the first contact in the works of Arthur C. Clarke” (Antropomorfizam i motiv prvog kontakta u delima Artura Klarka) and his doctorate in 1982 from the same university. His dissertation, "The Appearance of Science Fiction as a Genre of Artistic Prose" (Nastanak naučne fantastike kao žanra umetničke proze), appeared in his Contemporaries of the Future anthology, along with several of the stories discussed.
Also in 1982, Živković founded the Polaris imprint, Yugoslavia's first privately owned science fiction publishing house, through which he released over a hundred books.
Zoran Živković also wrote and hosted a television series about science fiction cinema, titled "The Starry Screen" ("Zvezdani ekran," 1984). The show later inspired a book of critical essays under the same title.
He wrote himself the entire text of his large, richly illustrated, two-tome Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Enciklopedija naučne fantastike) but since the year 2000 discontinued his engagement in SF and in literary studies as such, and turned entirely to writing fantasy.
In 2003, Živković's mosaic novel "The Library" won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
In 2005, Belgrade TV station Studio B produced his fantasy TV series "The Collector" ("Sakupljač"), based upon Živković's short stories.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction
- The Fourth Circle (Četvrti krug, 1993)
- Time-gifts (Vremenski darovi, 1997)
- The Writer (Pisac, 1998)
- The Book (Knjiga, 1999)
- Impossible Encounters (Nemogući susreti, 2000)
- Seven Touches of Music (Sedam dodira muzike, 2001)
- The Library (Biblioteka, 2002)
- Steps Through the Mist (Koraci kroz maglu, 2003)
- Hidden Camera (Skrivena kamera, 2003)
- Compartments (Vagon, 2004)
- Four Stories Till the End (Četiri priče do kraja, 2004)
- Twelve Collections and The Teashop (Dvanaest zbirki i Čajdžinica, 2005)
- The Bridge (Most, 2006)
- Miss Tamara, The Reader (Čitateljka, 2006)
[edit] Nonfiction
- Contemporaries of the Future (Savremenici budućnosti, 1983)
- The Starry Screen (Zvezdani ekran, 1984)
- First Contact
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction I-II
- Essays on Science Fiction
[edit] Anthologies edited
- The Devil In Brisbane (2005)
[edit] External links
- Official web site
- Zoran Živković at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Zoran Živković at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Nonfiction
- The Motif of First Contact in Arthur C. Clarke's SF Works, an excerpt from Zoran Živković's Master's thesis at Fantastic Metropolis
- Utopia in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, at Fantastic Metropolis
