Filip David
Filip David (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Давид; 4 July 1940 – 14 April 2025) was a Serbian writer and screenwriter known for his essays, plays, short stories and novels.
He was born in Kragujevac into a Jewish family; some of his relatives were victims of the 1941 Kragujevac massacre during World War II. He studied at the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Philology) and at the Belgrade University of Arts’ Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television. For many years he worked as an editor in the drama program at Radio Television of Belgrade.
David helped found the Independent Writers in Sarajevo in 1989 and started the Belgrade Circle in 1990, a group that opposed Slobodan Milošević’s government. He was dismissed from RTS in 1992 for organizing an independent trade union. He signed the Declaration on the Common Language, which argues against politically dividing Serbo-Croatian speech variants.
Awards include the Andrić Prize in 1987 for his short story collection Princ Vatre, and in 2015 he won the NIN Award for the best Serbian novel of 2014 for Kuća sećanja i zaborava (The House of Remembering and Forgetting).
David died on 14 April 2025 at the age of 84. He wrote many television dramas, plays, essays, short stories and novels.
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