Prvoslav Vujcic

Prvoslav Vujcic
Born (1960-07-20) 20 July 1960
Požarevac, Serbia
Residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Author
Children Four
Website UrbanBookCircle.com

Prvoslav Vujčić (Serbian pronunciation: [pr̩ʋoslaʋ ʋujt͡ʃit͡ɕ], Serbian Cyrillic: Првослав Вујчић; born 20 July 1960) is a Canadian writer, poet, translator, columnist and aphorist[1] who has been described as one of the most prominent writers of Serbian origin.[2][3]

He is the founder of the Urban Book Circle, based in Canada.[4]

Life

Vujcic was born on 20 July 1960 in Požarevac to parents Jefrem (1932–1996) and Nadežda (1936).[4] In 1975, Vujcic won the Zmaj Award (awarded annually by the Association of Writers of Serbia for the best book of the year) for his collection of poetry titled Pesnik i pesma – the award was presented to him by Desanka Maksimović.[5] In 1977, he visited Canada and the United States for the first time where he met one of his literary influences Charles Bukowski. Vujcic then read and presented his poetry with Bukowski on tour for fourteen days in 1977.[6] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was the leader of the Požarevac section of the Grobari, the supporters group of Partizan Belgrade. In 1983, Vujcic wrote a book of poetry titled Razmišljanja jednog leša which was banned by the Communist government of Yugoslavia by court order in 1983. In 1984, Vujcic was in the Tuzla Prison for seven days (for his writing and criticizing of Yugoslavia's communist regime) where he wrote his second book of poetry titled Kastriranje vetra – also banned by the communist regime.[7][8] During this time, Vujcic also wrote and published a feuilleton speaking out against Apartheid.[6]

In 1987, Vujcic moved to Canada. Upon arrival in Canada, he helped raise funds for the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade and the Živojin Mišić Monument in Mionica.[9] In April 1987, The Globe and Mail published a letter to the editor written by Vujcic which was his first published work in English.[9] On 4 March 1989, Momčilo Đujić called Vujcic a "true Serb" and an "honourable young man."[9] On 28 June 1989, Vujcic helped organize the 600th Anniversary Ceremony commemorating the Battle of Kosovo throughout Canada.[9] The Canada Gazette wrote about Vujcic and his beginnings in Canada in a 1989 edition.[6] In 1992, he founded the United Serbs FC soccer club for which he and Mike Stojanovic played (as a child, Vujcic played soccer in the youth categories of FK Železničar Požarevac).[10] During this period, Vujcic was a contributor to Serbian magazine Pogledi. In 1999, he was one of the organizers of the Toronto-based demonstrations against the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro. In terms of the Serbian diaspora, the demonstrations lasted all 78 days only in Toronto.[11]

Vujcic is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Royal Canadian Legion, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Serbian Literary Society, the Association of Writers of Republika Srpska and the US-based International Association of Writers.[12] In 2007, the International Association of Writers named him a Poetry Ambassador of the United States.[13] He is also an honourable member of the Desanka Maksimović Serbian Canadian Association. Vujcic is featured in the book Moždana veza sa Srbijom, 100 dragulja srpskog rasejanja (Brain Connection with Serbia, 100 Jewels of the Serbian Diaspora) by Radivoje Petrović, PhD. The book features the "one hundred most-known Serbs throughout the world-wide Serbian diaspora."[14] He was also featured on the cover of the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia book called U čast pisaca iz rasejanja / In honour of writers in the diaspora in which literary critics Miodrag Perišić and Čedomir Mirković said that “Vujcic is one of the most significant living Serbian poets and dissidents.” [11]

Published books

Literary influences

His literary influences have been listed as Saint Justin Popović, Jovan Dučić, Desanka Maksimović, Branko Miljković, Đura Jakšić, Milutin Bojić, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosiński, Hermann Hesse, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller among others.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Reč naroda (issue #1927, pg. 9) (3 February 1987). "Portreti – Prvoslav Vujčić – Reč kao osnov" (Serbian)
  2. ↑ Radio Television of Serbia (2004). "Intervju, RTS – Prvoslav Vujčić, književnik". Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Vesti, May 2007, Prvoslav Vujčić začetnik novog poetskog stila (Serbian)
  4. 1 2 Urban Book Circle (16 May 2013). "Prvoslav Vujčić biography". Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Večernje novosti (31 March 2007). "Rodoljubive pesme, pg. 26" (Serbian).
  6. 1 2 3 The Canada Gazette: La Gazette du Canada, Volume 123, Issue 1, Part 1 (in English & French). Queen's Printer. 1989.
  7. ↑ Danas (7 February 2004). "Kanadska prašina" (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Politika (28 March 2004). "Otadžbina na Gembl aveniji" (in Serbian). Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Migrating Memories: Central Europe in Canada Volume I – Literary Anthology. CEACS. 2010. pp. 306–308. ISBN 978-86-7746-233-8.
  10. ↑ Srpske novine (24 September 1992). "FK Ujedinjeni Srbi, Serbian News #2607, pg. 14" (in Serbian)
  11. 1 2 U čast pisaca iz rasejanja (in Serbian). Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia. 2005. pp. 47–48. ISBN 86-906685-0-0.
  12. ↑ Nikola Korbutovski, Borba (9 April 2005). "Pisac je livac: Prvoslav Vujčić, pg. 18" (Serbian).
  13. ↑ Večernje novosti (31 March 2007). "Rodoljubive pesme, pg. 26" (Serbian).
  14. ↑ Moždana veza sa Srbijom, 100 dragulja srpskog rasejanja (in Serbian). Global Puls Beograd & Serbian Unity Congress, San Francisco. 2005. pp. 286–288.
  15. ↑ Urban Book Circle. "Prvoslav Vujčić biography". Retrieved 9 March 2014.

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