CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER AND MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY BODIES OF THE CROWN EXTEND THEIR CONDOLENCES REGARDING THE PASSING OF ACADEMICIAN MILORAD PAVIC

Belgrade, 30 November 2009 – His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II and members of the Advisory Bodies of the Crown announced with great sorrow that Academician Milorad Pavic, member of the Crown Council, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts has passed away today in Belgrade.

Academician Milorad Pavic, was born 15 October 1929 in Belgrade, was one of the most popular and most important Serbian writers of the 20th Century, he was a member of the Crown Council since 1991, the same year he was elected a full member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Academician Milorad Pavic was awarded the most prestigious Serbian literary awards, such as the NIN award in 1985; Mesa Selimovic award in 1988; National Library of Serbia award in 1988; Borisav Stankovic award in 1992; the Golden Medal Felix Romuliana in 1992; the October award of the City of Belgrade in 1992; the Prosveta award in 1994; the Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa award in 1994; the Kocic award in 1994; the Vuk Karadzic award in 1996; the Ivo Andric award. He had an honorary PhD from Sofia University, and was President of the Serbian – Ukraine Society and the member of the Societe Europeenne de Culture.

Academician Milorad Pavic was an author of one of the greatest and most translated novels of Serbian literature of 20th Century – Dictionary of the Khazars.

The death of Academician Pavic is an enormous loss for our culture, our literature and Serbian society, as well as to all of us that knew him and had the privilege to be his contemporaries.

We pray the Lord to give him eternal peace.