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- Filip David was born on July 4, 1940 in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was a writer, known for Who's Singin' Over There? (1980), Boomerang (2001) and Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978). He died on April 14, 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia.
- He was also the founder of the literary society "Belgrade Circle" in 1990. This society opposed the then-ruling government of Slobodan Milosevic.
- During the wars in the former Yugoslavia, he wrote a series of politically engaged essays under the title Fragments from Dark Times, which were published and broadcast both domestically and internationally.
- He graduated from both the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade and the Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television of the Belgrade University of Arts.
- In 1992, David was fired from the Radio Television of Belgrade for organizing an independent trade union.
- His works have been translated into Swedish, French, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Albanian, Esperanto, Macedonian, Slovenian, and Hebrew. His short stories have been included in more than twenty anthologies.
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