Miodrag Pavlovic

Miodrag Pavlović was born in 1928. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in medicine in year 1954. His first volume of poetry, 87 Poems appeared in 1952, the year the Yugoslav authorities, responding to a public address by theCroatian writer Miroslav Krleža, allowed more freedom of expression in politics and the arts. In 1960 Pavlović was appointed director of drama at the National Theatre in Belgrade. He also worked for twenty years as editor for the leading publishing house of Prosveta. He died in 2014.