Lazić, Radmila 1949-

PERSONAL:

Born December 26, 1949, in Kruševac, Yugoslavia; daughter of Dragolĵub (a railway engineer) and Stanoĵka (a homemaker) Lazić. Ethnicity: "Serb." Education: Attended medical school to become a nurse. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Orthodox.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Belgrade, Yugoslavia. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Nurse and teacher throughout Serbian Yugoslavia, 1970-2004; Prosveta (publisher), Belgrade, Yugoslavia, editor of "Femina" collection, beginning 2004; Narodna knjiga (publisher), editor. Founding member of Serbian Civil Resistance Movement.

MEMBER:

Serbian PEN Center, Literary Association of Serbia.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Milan Rakić, for Podela uloga; Đura Jakšić, for Iz anamneze; Desanka Maksimovic and Vladislav Petković Dis, both for overall creativity; Vasko Popa, for Zimogrozica.

WRITINGS:

To je to (poetry; title means "That's That"), Prosveta (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1974.

Pravo stanje stvari (poetry; title means "The Actual State of Affairs"), Nolit (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1978.

Podela uloga (poetry; title means "Casting"), Srpska knjizevna zadruga (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1981.

Noćni razgovori (poetry; title means "Night Talks"), BGZ (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1986.

Istorija melanholije (poetry; title means "The History of Melancholy"), BGZ (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1993.

Vjetar ide na jug i obrće se na sjever (correspondence; title means "The Wind Blows Southward and Changes Its Direction Northward"), Suhrkamp (Frankfurt, Germany), 1993.

Priče i druge pesme (poetry; title means "Stories and Other Poems"), Knjizevna opština (Vršac, Yugoslavia), 1998.

Iz anamneze (poetry; title means "From Anamnesis"), Rad (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2000.

Mačke ne idu u raj (poetry anthology; title means "Cats Don't Go to Paradise"), Samizdat Free (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2000.

(Editor) Flora Brovina, Nazovi me mojim imenom (poetry; title means "Call Me by My Name"), Samizdat Free (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2000.

Doroti Parker bluz (poetry; title means "Dorothy Parker Blues"), Prosveta (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2003.

A Wake for the Living (poetry; bilingual edition), translated from Serbian by Charles Simic, Graywolf Press (St. Paul, MN), 2003.

Zimogrozica (poetry; title means "Chill"), Narodna knjiga (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2005.

Mesto zudnje (essays; title means "The Place of Desire"), Narodna knjiga (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2005.

Med hjartet mellom tennene (poetry; title means "Heart between the Teeth"), Solum forlag (Oslo, Norway), 2005.

In vivo (poetry), Narodna knjiga (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 2006.

Founder and editor, Profemina, 1994-98.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Antioch Review, summer, 2004, John Taylor, review of A Wake for the Living, p. 584.

Booklist, November 1, 2003, Patricia Monaghan, review of A Wake for the Living, p. 473.

Library Journal, December, 2003, Heather Wright, review of A Wake for the Living, p. 125.

World Literature Today, May-August, 2005, Biljana D. Obradovic, review of A Wake for the Living, p. 103.