Background
David Albahari was born on March 15, 1948, in Pejë, Serbia.
2011
David Albahari
Belgrade, Serbia
The University of Belgrade
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1996
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1997
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2003
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2011
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2014
David Albahari was born on March 15, 1948, in Pejë, Serbia.
David Albahari published the first collection of short stories Porodično vreme (Family Time) in 1973. He became better known to a wider audience in 1982 with a volume Opis smrti (Description of Death) for which he got the Ivo Andrić award.
In 1991 he became the chair of the Federation of Jewish Communes of Yugoslavia and worked on the evacuation of the Jewish population from besieged Sarajevo.
In 1994, David Albahari moved with his family to Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, where he still lives. He continues to write and publish in the Serbian language.
In 2012 David Albahari was awarded the Vilenica Prize. He also received the following awards: Ivo Andrić Award (1982), Stanislav Vinaver Award (1993), NIN Prize (1996), National Library of Serbia Award for bestseller (1996), International Balkanika Award (1996), Bridge Berlin Award (1998), City of Belgrade Award (2005) and Isidora Sekulić Award (2014).
On 29 July 2016, David Albahari won the first award at the "Druga prikazna" ("Another Story") literary festival in Skopje, Macedonia.
In the late 1980s, David Albahari initiated the first formal petition to legalize marijuana in Yugoslavia.
