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Aleksandar Tišma

Died in 2003

Aleksandar Tišma was born in 1924 in Horgoš, in Vojvodina, to a Serbian father who was a merchant and a Hungarian-speaking Jewish mother, and grew up in Novi Sad. He studied in Budapest during the war, joined the partisans in 1944, then obtained in Belgrade in 1952 a degree in English and German. A journalist, he was later an editor at the Matica srpska until his retirement and edited its Letopis. A refugee in France from 1992 to 1995, he returned to Novi Sad, where he died in 2003.

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