Jovan Ćirilov

Jovan Ćirilov (, ; 30 August 1931 – 16 November 2014) was a Serbian theatrologist, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, and poet.

Biography Ćirilov was born in Kikinda. the only son of Milivoj Ćirilov, a council clerk, and his wife, Jelica (née Ivačković). His parents later divorced. After finishing school in his home town, he enrolled and graduated philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

In 2000, he received a Special Prize by the Jury of the Europe Theatre Prize, awarded to BITEF.

Since 2001 to 2007, he was the President of the National Commission of Yugoslavia, then Serbia, in UNESCO.

He wrote the plays Room for four and House of Silence (with Miroslav Belović), scripts for the Vladimir Slijepčević film Real state of situation, Ward, Where after the rain (shown in Venice, Moscow and Pula), radio plays Windy Roads (in German language, Radio Hamburg), Mechanical secretary and others. Adapted for the stage of The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, and together with Belović Discovery, by Dobrica Ćosić.

He was the author of novels, several collections of poems, theatrological essays, books of memories, an anthology of plays (Serbian contemporary drama in English, British and American contemporary drama, The shortest plays in the world, etc...) and vocabularies. He had translated plays by Christopher Fry, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Genet, Stoppard, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Marber and the musical Hair.

He spoke German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Serbian and studied Chinese. He is interred in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the Belgrade New Cemetery.

Works

Published books Путовање по граматици, The journey for grammar, poems, 1972. Неко време у Салцбургу, Some time in Salzburg, a novel, 1980. Узалудна путовања, песме, Trip in vain, songs, 1989. Реч недеље, Word of the Week, a collection of articles (columns), 1997. and 2006. Пре и после гнева, Before and after anger, зборник савремене британске драме, repertory of modern British drama, 2001. Пре и после Косе, Before and after Kosa, зборник савремене америчке драме, repertory of modern American drama, 2002. Сви моји савременици I-II, All of my contemporaries, collection of short biographies, 2010/11. Мајке познатих, Mothers of the famous, collection of short biographies, 2011.

Theatrical works Путовање по позоришту, Travels in Theatre, 1988. Драмски писци моји савременици, Dramatic writers my contemporaries, 1989. Позориштарије, Pozorištarije, 1998. Дневници, Diaries, 1999.

Dramas, plays and scripts Room for four, play (with Miroslav Belović) House of Silence, play (with Miroslav Belović) The Real State of Affairs, movie script for the Vladan Slijepčević film The Climber, movie script Where after the rain?, movie script (shown in Venice, Moscow and Pula) Windy Roads (in German language, Radio Hamburg), radio play Mechanical secretary, radio play The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić, adapted for the stage Discovery, by Dobrica Ćosić, together with Belović, adapted for the stage

Dictionaries Речник нових речи, Dictionary of new words, 1982. Речник песничких слика, Dictionary of poetic images, 1985. Нови речник нових речи, New Dictionary of new words, 1991. Српско-хрватски речник варијаната (иначица), Serbo-Croatian Dictionary of variants (inacica), 1989. And 1994.

Anthologies Najkraće drame na svetu (The shortest plays in the World, short dramas, KOV, Vršac, 1999) Kratke kraće i najkraće drame na svetu (Short, shorter and shortest plays in the world, short dramas, KOV, Vršac, 2008)

Awards Two Sterija Awards, awarded by Sterijino pozorje, for newspaper theater critics and for special merits in the promotion of theater arts. The Statuette of Joakim Vujić, awarded by Knjaževsko-srpski teatar in Kragujevac (1990) Foundation "Braća Karić" Award, for journalism October Award of Belgrade, for lifetime achievement Order of "Knight of Art and Literature", awarded by France, 1992 Sretenje Order, awarded by Serbia, 2012