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Svetislav Basara


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in Bajina Bašta, Serbia
December 21, 1953

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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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“I tada su stvari konačno počele da teku svojim prirodnim tokom: naopako.”
Svetislav Basara, De bello civili

“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

“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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