ANTIĆ Miroslav
ANTIĆ Miroslav
Writer, Painter
(Mokrin, 14 March 1932 – Novi Sad, 24 June 1986)
Education: Primary School in Mokrin and Pančevo; Grammar School in Pančevo and Kikinda. Studied Slavic languages (Russian and Czech) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Career: Worked for the Popular Theatre and the Pančevac newspaper in Pančevo; journalist of Novi Sad's Dnevnik daily newspaper; editor of the 'First Book Series' ("Prva knjiga") of the Matica Srpska Publishing House; editor of Pionir in Belgrade; editor at Forum's Publishing Department (N. Sad); reporter for Dnevnik; editor-in-chief of the jazz and pop music magazine Ritam; editor-in-chief of the children's magazine Neven… Antic published his first poem "Majka"/"Mother" at the Mladost Publishing House, Belgrade, in 1948. His first book of poems Ispričano za proleća ('Told for Springtime'), appeared in Belgrade in 1950, when he was an eighteen years old boy.
Antic published about twenty books of poetry, a novel, radio dramas… His works have been translated in many languages.
He worked as a set designer and director on many documentary films (noteworthy are his Trojica iz starog Sombora ('The Three Men of Sombor') about composer P. Konjović, writer V. Petrović and painter M. Konjović, Druga obala ('The Opposite Bank') and Spomenik ('The Monument') - both about the WW II Fascist massacre in Novi Sad). He also worked on feature films: Sveti pesak (Holy Sand) and Doručak sa đavolom (Breakfast with the Devil) – Screen-play prize Zlatna arena ('Golden Arena'), Pula, 1971.
As a painter, Antic produced an impressive 'gallery' (oil, collage).
One-man exhibitions: Zagreb, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Kikinda and Mokrin.
Awards and honors: Vojvodina Liberation Award; October Prize of the City of Novi Sad; "Zmajeve dečije igre" Award (Zmaj Children's Festival); "Svetozar Marković Toza" Award for life achievement of the Journalists' Association of Vojvodina. Miroslav Antic received his last award, "Jovan Popović", granted by the Association of National Liberation War Veterans of Vojvodina, at noon of the very day he passed away.
When awfully white snowstorms buried me in snow at the entrance into Kikinda, last May, 1985
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The Fortress Troubadours possessed a special God-given skill: their voice used to give power both to the military crew, restrained by a strict discipline, and to the inhabitants of Novi Sad, restrained by their life, that was never easy to live, in this or that way. Unique colour of these Voices has not been their main feature – the Voice has always been silent for everyone but the one who can hear it. Of course, it tells to everyone who can hear it - or thinks he can hear it! – something different; at the same time, someone thinks that it speaks about love, the other hears the death song, the third one, usually the most realistic one, understands that the Voice talks about the transience of life and inevitability of death. They say that the Troubadour Voices could be heard most clearly in 1739, in the soldiers' or officers' tavern – in the town under the Fortress, "the German Town" – "At the Green Tree". Then the voices moved to "At Seven Elector-Dukes" inn, called "At Seven Krauts". Those who drank wine thought that was the reeason, however, nobody could answer the question why those who did not drink wine heard the Voices too. The Voices are heard most clearly in the autumn, and it is a phenomenon that is connected with mysterious departures of Miroslav Antić, who, always in the autumn, used to disappear from Novi Sad. They say it is the greatest Voice that can sing, at the same time, the same song to everyone. It sings about people enclosed in a single room, reportedly down-to-earth people. It sings about man's attempts to leave, at the same time, failing to notice that he is ascending from the ground end entering unknown lofts. Is sings about the unchanging melody of nostalgia, about melancholy which says: this autumn, I must surely leave... surely leave...
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