Dušan Matić

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Born in Ćuprija, educated in France - Grenoble and Nice. Started Faculty of Philosophy  in Paris, finished it in Belgrade. As a young man, he survived retreat through Albania! He was an associate in the avant-garde magazines "Zenit" and "Roads". His first solo book, a collection of essays, "One aspect of French literature" (1952), released at his age of 54. The first book of poetry, "Bagdala" (1954), when he was 56. He became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) on December 16, 1965, and a regular member on 28th of May in 1970.

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У његовом родном граду. Песник, мислилац, преводилац, романсијер, есејиста и прозаиста, један од покретача надреализма у српској књижевности. У Ћупријском музеју постоји соба Душана Матића препуна личних предмета великог песника.
 

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Poetry
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The poet, scholar, interpreter, novelist, essayist and prose writer, one of the founders of surrealism in Serbian literature. (Ćuprija, August 31, 1898 - Belgrade, 12 September 1980)
Date of birth: 
Wednesday, August 31, 1898
Place of birth and location: 
Ćuprija
Serbia
43° 55' 59.9988" N, 21° 22' 0.0012" E
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Date of death: 
Friday, September 12, 1980
Place of death and location : 
Beograd
Serbia
44° 49' 0.0012" N, 20° 28' 0.0012" E
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Gender: 
Мушки
Epoch: 
Surrealism
Institution: 
SANU(Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Year of birth: 
1898
Country of Birth: 
Serbia