Milovan Vitezović

Milovan Vitezović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Витезовић; 11 September 1944 – 22 March 2022) was a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter.

He wrote poems, novels, essays, prose literature for children, reviews, aphorisms, movies and TV scripts. He published more than forty books and was represented in over fifty various anthologies.

His aphorisms were published in a series of European newspapers, such as the Hamburg ''Stern'' and Moscow's ''Sunday Times'', and translated into Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Swedish and Italian. Vitezović was one of the few Serbian and Yugoslav contemporary writers, whose books were banned and even burned in its first edition – the collection of aphorisms ''Srce me je otkucalo''. His satirical texts were often published in the Serbian magazine ''Jež'' (Hedgehog).

He is the author of numerous television dramas and series, texts for theatrical performances and film scripts.

Vitezović died in March 2022 from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. Provided by Wikipedia