Sava Damjanov

Sava Damjanov (; born 29 September 1956) is a Serbian novelist, literary critic, short story writer, and literary historian. His efforts are directed primarily towards fantastic fictions, erratic and linguistically experimental strata in the Serbian tradition, reception theory, Postmodernism and Comparative Studies.

Life and work

Sava Damjanov graduated from the University of Novi Sad in 1980, and did his Ph.D. in 1996 at the same university, under the mentorship of Milorad Pavić. He edited texts written by 18th, 19th and 20th century Serbian authors for contemporary publication. In the 1990s, he was the editor of the magazine for world literature Pismo (Letter), and Sveti Dunav (Saint Danube), a magazine dedicated to Central European culture. He was the editor of "Biblioteka srpske fantastike" (Collection of Serbian Fantastic Fiction), as well as the series called "The Novi Sad Manuscript".

During the winter term of 2001/2002., Damjanov taught at the Department of Slavistics at the University Tuebingen. He was also a guest lecturer at the Universities in Regensburg, Freiburg, Berlin, Halle, Trier, Göttingen, Bonn, Kraków, Wrocław, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Łódź, Opolе, Veliko Trnovo, Ljubljana and Skopje.

His texts have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovakian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Romanian and Macedonian. His works have been included in anthologies of Serbian contemporary prose.