Eva Ras
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| Born | Eva Marija Balaš January 1, 1941 Subotica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Eva Ras (Serbian: Ева Рас) is a Serbian actress, writer, and painter.
Ras was born on 1st January 1941 in Subotica, where she lived and went to school until she was eighteen, when she started to study acting and dramaturgy in Belgrade where she now lives. She performed in theatres throughout the former Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro, on television in series written by Siniša Pavić and Dragoslav Lazić, and in films directed by Dušan Makavejev, Aleksandar Petrović, Živko Nikolić, Emir Kusturica, Lívia Gyarmathy, Géza Böszörményi, János Rózsa, Ferenc Kardos, Karolj Vicsek among others.
Eva Ras is the winner of Golden Ring 2007 for her creative opus, an award conferred by Feniks Publisher and Makedonija Prezent Foundation for Cultural and Scientific Affirmation. The jury including Svetlana Hristova-Jocic, the Chairman and Viktor Sekerovski and Hristo Petreski, members decided on the award unanimously. A ceremony marking Golden Ring 2007 award will be held within the Skopje Book Fair.
Ras has published 13 literary works including the novels “House on Sale,” “With Eve to Paradise,” and others and books “Silver Bed,” “Born Dead” etc. Her heroes are often specific persons and the plot is on the verge of imagined and real.
She was hailed by the critics as actress of the year and in Hungary was awarded the Golden Butterfly on the occasion of the Celebration of 100 Years of Film, as well as the award for life’s work Aleksandar Lifka 2005. The Yugoslav National Film Theatre awarded her their Great Seal. She has published collections of poems: In the Good Old Days, When Mummy Buys Me Some Money and Bed of Silver, with which she took part in the Struga Poetry Evenings in 2004; a collection of short stories: From the top of the Moon’s mountain I looked down on my round grave, the novels: Don’t crow after me on the stairs that I’m the most beautiful of all, The Grey Woman, ...Cock on the Block..., House for Sale and With Eve to Paradise, which is about how no nation should be reproached because of bad rulers who are always prepared to sacrifice their people, and which appeared in the The People’s Books bookshops towards the end of December 2004 and was sold out in a matter of days. Eva Ras has been awarded several important domestic literary awards: Woman’s Pen (...Cock on the Block..., 2001); The Kochich Book (House for Sale, 2003), Ascendancy of year (Bed of silver 2006) as well as The International Man Booker Peoples’ Prize in 2005 for her book Born Dead, in Timothy Byford’s translation.
She was the wife of the all too soon departed Radomir Stević Ras, painter as well as founder and owner of a private theatre during the period of communist dictatorship when it was considered heresy, and the mother of Kruna Ras, the youngest Serbian female writer.
