Vladimir Pištalo

Vladimir Pištalo Ph.D.
Pištalo in 2012
Born	(1960-05-08) 8 May 1960 (age 64) Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Writer
Period	1981–present
Notable works	Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

Vladimir Pištalo (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Пиштало, pronounced [ʋlǎdimiːr pǐʃtalo]; born 8 May 1960) is a Serbian American writer, most notably winning the NIN Award for novel of the year in 2008.^[1]

In 2021, he became the director of the National Library of Serbia.^[2]

Biography

Pištalo graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law and earned his doctorate at the University of New Hampshire under the theme of the manifold identity of Serbian immigrants. Pištalo was a faculty member at Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he taught World and American history.^[1]

He grew up in Mostar, Kraljevo and Belgrade and emigrated to the United States in 1993.^[3]

Published books

Prose

Slikovnica (1981)
Noći (1986)
Manifesti (1986)
Kraj veka (1990)
A Novel: Corto Maltese (1987)
Tesla: A Portrait with Masks (2008)

Short story collections

Vitraž u sećanju (1994)
Priče iz celog sveta (1997)
A biography of Alexander the Great (1999)

Novels

Milenijum u Beogradu (2000)
O čudu (2002)

References

^ ^a ^b Becker College (2012-01-15). "Author and Professor Vladimir Pistalo's New Novel Awarded Serbia's Golden Hit Liber". Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
^ Conference of European National Librarians (2021-03-19). "New directorship appointed at National Library of Serbia". Retrieved 2022-04-26.
^ "Veče Vladimira Pištala". rts.rs (in Serbian). 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2016-07-30.

External links

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Works by Vladimir Pištalo at Open Library

Serbian literature

Medieval literature

Pre-19th century

19th century

20th century

Contemporary

Literary awards

v t e NIN Award winning authors
Dobrica Ćosić (1954) Mirko Božić (1955) Oskar Davičo (1956) Aleksandar Vučo (1957) Branko Ćopić (1958) N/A (1959) Radomir Konstantinović (1960) Dobrica Ćosić (1961) Miroslav Krleža (1962) Oskar Davičo (1963) Oskar Davičo (1964) Ranko Marinković (1965) Meša Selimović (1966) Erih Koš (1967) Slobodan Novak (1968) Bora Ćosić (1969) Borislav Pekić (1970) Miloš Crnjanski (1971) Danilo Kiš (1972) Mihailo Lalić (1973) Jure Franičević Pločar (1974) Miodrag Bulatović (1975) Aleksandar Tišma (1976) Petko Vojnić Purčar (1977) Mirko Kovač (1978) Pavle Ugrinov (1979) Slobodan Selenić (1980) Pavao Pavličić (1981) Antonije Isaković (1982) Dragoslav Mihailović (1983) Milorad Pavić (1984) Živojin Pavlović (1985) Vidosav Stevanović (1986) Voja Čolanović (1987) Dubravka Ugrešić (1988) Vojislav Lubarda (1989) Miroslav Josić Višnjić (1990) Milisav Savić (1991) Živojin Pavlović (1992) Radoslav Petković (1993) Vladimir Arsenijević (1994) Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1995) David Albahari (1996) Milovan Danojlić (1997) Danilo Nikolić (1998) Maksimilijan Erenrajh Ostojić (1999) Goran Petrović (2000) Zoran Ćirić (2001) Mladen Markov (2002) Vladan Matijević (2003) Vladimir Tasić (2004) Miro Vuksanović (2005) Svetislav Basara (2006) Dragan Velikić (2007) Vladimir Pištalo (2008) Grozdana Olujić (2009) Gordana Ćirjanić (2010) Slobodan Tišma (2011) Aleksandar Gatalica (2012) Goran Gocić (2013) Filip David (2014) Dragan Velikić (2015) Ivana Dimić (2016) Dejan Atanacković (2017) Vladimir Tabašević (2018) Saša Ilić (2019) Svetislav Basara (2020) Milena Marković (2021)

NIN Award winning authors