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Svetislav Basara

Born

in Bajina Bašta, Serbia

December 21, 1953

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction

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Svetislav Basara (Serbian cyrillic: Светислав Басара) is a Serbian writer and columnist.
He is the author of more than forty literary works, including novels, story collections, and essays. For his novel Fuss about Cyclists (Fama o biciklistima) David Albahari said: "After the appearance of The Fuss about Cyclists, one can safely say, the Serbian prose has never been the same, just like Basara has never been the same author, just like I have never been the same reader again."

Basara received the NIN Prize, a prestigious Serbian literary award for the best novel, twice. In 2006 for 'Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti' (The Rise and the Fall of Parkinson's Disease). and in 2020 for the novel Kontraendorfin (Counter-endorphin).

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Svetislav Basara’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 3,773 ratings · 311 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cyclist Conspiracy 3.95 avg rating — 892 ratings — published 1987 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mein Kampf 3.67 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guía de Mongolia by Svetislav Basara, Luisa Fernanda Garrido (Translator), Tihomir Pištelek (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti 3.69 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kontraendorfin 3.35 avg rating — 173 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tušta i tma by Svetislav Basara, Miljenko Jergović 4.23 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chinese Letter 3.74 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dugovečnost 3.93 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Napuklo ogledalo 4.05 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gnusoba 3.77 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Manično-paranoična istorija srpske književnosti u periodu od 1979-1990. godine (2 books)
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“I tada su stvari konačno počele da teku svojim prirodnim tokom: naopako.”
― Svetislav Basara, De bello civili

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“Nikada, na primer, nisam prebrojao prste na rukama. Rečeno mi je da ih ima deset i ja sam to prihvatio zdravo za gotovo, a takvi ne uspevaju u životu.

- Elisa za Isu”
― Svetislav Basara, Očaj od nane

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“Stvorio sam vreme, nekada davno, ne zato da bi stvari prolazile u njemu tek da prolaze, već da bi ta prolaznost bila primećena i da bi se ljudi okrenuli neprolaznom.

- Izgubljen u samoposluzi”
― Svetislav Basara, Očaj od nane

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