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Milovan Glišić

Milovan Glišić (6 January 1847 – 20 January 1908) was a Serbian writer, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist. He is sometimes referred to as the Serbian Gogol.

Milovan Glišić

(1847-01-06)6 January 1847Gradac, Valjevo, Ottoman Empire
1 February 1908(1908-02-01) (aged 61)Dubrovnik, Austria-Hungary
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Writer
translator
dramatist
newspaperman
Serbian
Serbian
University of Belgrade
realism
Glava šećera, Posle devedeset godina
Order of St. Sava, Order of the Cross of Takovo
Kosara Stefanović

Milovan Glišić (6 January 1847 – 20 January 1908) was a Serbian writer, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist. He is sometimes referred to as the Serbian Gogol.

Glišić's translation of Taras Bulba, published in 1902.

A portrait of Glišić

Milovan Glišić with fellow writers Branislav Nušić, Stevan Sremac, Janko Veselinović and others

Royal decree; writer and translator Milovan Glišić is to be awarded the Order of the Cross of Takovo.

Glišić is considered to be one of the best translators of his time and several of his short stories including Prva Brazda and Glava Šećera are studied in Serbian schools and included in various anthologies of short stories. His translations of Russian writers Gogol and Tolstoy significantly influenced Serbian culture of that time and future writers Stevan Sremac, Svetozar Ćorović, Branislav Nušić and many others.

According to Slobodan Jovanović, Glišić was one of the first Serbian short story writers to attempt a more serious characterization in his works.

He was awarded Order of the Cross of Takovo and Order of St. Sava of the third and the fourth class.

After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanović, 2015, translated by James Lyon
Tales of Fear and Superstition, 2021, translated by Miloš Pavlović
Ljubomir Nedić
Bogdan Popović
Pavle Popović
Jovan Skerlić
Svetozar Marković
Andra Gavrilović
Branko Lazarević
Stanislav Vinaver
Vojislav Jovanović Marambo
Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1921) pages 373–378

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