Slobodan Vuksanović

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Slobodan Vuksanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Вуксановић, born in 1965 in Belgrade), a poet, essayist and translator served as the Minister of Education and Sport in the Government of Serbia, cabinet of PM, Vojislav Koštunica from 2004 to 2007.

He was appointed as a minister on October 19, 2004, after an unsuccessful attempt to become mayor of Belgrade. He replaced Ljiljana Čolić, who was forced to leave after she made several controversial decisions.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature from the University of Belgrade, and obtained his PhD at the University of Novi Sad. He has been the editor of several magazines, a teacher in a secondary school, and has written 12 books. He was the president of the People's Democratic Party, which is now integrated into the Democratic Party of Serbia. Vuksanović speaks English, is married and has one child.

[edit] Selected bibliography

• Translated, with Irena Kostić, the novel "S" by John Updike (1989) and the book of poems "Eternal Sorrow - A Book of Gods and Angels" by Charles Simic(1989).
  
• Anthology of the contemporary Serbian poetry: "The Poem of Kosovo" (bilingual edition, 1991)
  
• Anthology of the contemporary poetry of the Serbian diaspora in Romania under the title: "Bicycle of Miloš Crnjanski" (1994).
  
• Collection of essays on Serbian literature close to the borders "The Hushed Up Poems" (1993)

Books of poems:

• "Halley's Comet over Kosovo" (1990,
  
• "Essay about Angels" (1992),
  
• "Travels of Jelena Erdeljan" (1993),
  
• "Fiery hand" (1994).