ABRAMOVIC MARINA, painter; multimedia artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. B: Nov. 30, 1946 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
P: Vojin, colonel and university professor in retirement; Danica - Rosic, art historian in retirement. ED: graduated painting in 1970 in the class of professor S. Celic from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade; 1970-73 in the master class of K. Hegedusic, Zagreb. J: 1973-75 assistant at the Pedagogic Academy, Novi Sad; free- lance artist; 1990-97 visiting professor at the Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin; at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris; Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig; 1992-96 professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg. Ach: had a hundred and fifty-three one-man and two hundred and sixty-four group exhibitions of paintings, objects, installations, video works, photo-documentation, body art and other performances in numerous countries on several continents; the most significant are - besides exhibitions in Belgrade 1970-89, during 1990, presentations in the Paris Baubourg; the Amsterdam museum Stedelik; 1995 at the Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery and museums of modern art in Dublin and Oxford; participated at the Venetian Biennial 1976, '84, '88, '93 and '97; at the exhibitions Documents in Kassel 1977, '79, '87 and '92; at the Art from Europe 1987, London; Female-Male Sex in Art 1995-96, Baubourg; the project Walking on the Chinese Wall 1988 and the Brazilian Project 1991-93; exhibition in 1996 in Museum moderner Kunst, Wien; exhibition Bridge and project In Between 1997, at Museum of the city of Skoplje; 1998 Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Sidney, Australia, and Museum of Modern Art, Valencia and Alicante, Spain, monodrama Biography performed in the Museum of Modern Art; held lectures at fine art academies in Amsterdam, Vienna, London, Rome, Sao Paulo etc. Aw: winner of the Day of Youth first-prize 1973, The Seven Secretaries of the Federation of the Communists Youth Organization (SKOJ) Award 1974, Zagreb, the Sombor Fine Art Autumn Award 1988, the first-prize at the international video festival 1984, Locarno, Switzerland, first-prize of the German industry for video-work 1986, first-prize for Polaroid 1984, Boston, USA, the Golden Lion International Award at the 47th Biennial in Venice for the multimedia setup The Balkan Baroque at the Central Exhibition Future, Present, Past, 1997. C: Yugoslav. Aff: Yugoslav. L: Serbian, French, English, uses Italian, Spanish and Dutch. H: Tango Argentino, School of modern dancing. A: lives in Holland.

ACKOV RADENKO, engineer; businessman. B: Novi Sentivan, Hungary. P: Milan; Vidosava - Dragic. FA: s. Katalina - Corba, agronomist; c. Zorka, Ana, Radovan and Adam. ED: degree in mechanical engineering from the Faculty in Godollo, 1980. J: worked in the firm Mem Mi in Godollo, 1980-83; mechanical engineer in the firm Szegedi Ag. In Szeged, 1983-90; director of the Kubekhazi Ag. Company in Szeged, 1991-95.
Ach: actively engaged in cultural and artistic as well as relief programs organized by the Serbian self-government in Hungary. C: Hungarian.
Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian, Hungarian and Russian. A: 6754 Ujszentivan, Ujvilag u. 16, Hungary.

ACIN-KOSTA MILOS, officer, historian and writer. B: Feb. 28, 1915 Knjazevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: Kosta, Vukosava - Vujic. ED: the Military Academy, Belgrade, 1934; the airforce Military Academy in Pancevo, 1938. J: active officer, 1934-45, airforce II Class Captain, commander of the Kosmaj Corps of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (JVO); officer of British Royal Air Force (RAF). Ach: published forty-three books, of which fourteen are about the Ravna Gora Movement; his most significant works are - Who is Colonel Draza Mihajlovic 1942, What They Call Democracy 1948, See you in Freedom 1953, Whirls of Tomorrow 1957, Unpunished crimes 1958, Serbia on Fire 1961, Prologue to the Future 1963, The First Guerilla in Europe - the Truth About Draza Mihajlovic's Fighters 1964, Defenders of Kosovo 1973, Draza Mihajlovic and Ravna Gora in nine volumes 1976-83, Return to the Sun 1982, A Tale of the Socialist Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia in our Times - book 1, Created 1991 and book 2, Dismembered 1992; contributor to many Serbian and other papers and magazines; member of the Serbian Authors' Society Abroad, England since 1951; honorary member of the Serbian Writers' Society since 1991; included in Who's who in the World and other international lexicons as historian and writer. Im: 1945; r. ideological. Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian, English, French and Italian. HL: no.
A: lives in the USA

ADAMOV CEDOMIR, civil engineer and businessman. B: Sept. 4 1956 Szeged, Hungary. P: Males; Jevrosima - Vesic FA: s. Radinka - Brcan, pharmacist; c. Sreten (1989), Filip (1992), Ilija (1994). ED: degree in civil engineering. J: 1985-97 director of firm Antikorr LTD, Szeged.
Ach: prominent expert in his line of work; successful businessman. C: Hungarian. Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian and Hungarian. SL: St. Petka. HL: yes. A: lives in Hungary.

ADAMOVIC JELENA - see under the name SAULA.

ADAMOVIC LJUBICA, Founder of the Church of the Nativity of the most Holy Theotokos in Buenos Aires, Argentina; was active in the construction of the church and with her family is its benefactor; the church was built between 1986 and mid-nineteen nineties and consecrated in 1995; for her important contribution to building the church she was granted the title of the Founder. A: lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ADAMOVIC LJUBISA, university professor.B: Dec. 7, 1928 Zemun, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: Stevan, Slavojka - Devic. FA: s. Veselinka - Janjatovic, scientific researcher; c. Svetlana (1953), University professor. ED: graduated 1952 from Advanced School of Journalism and Diplomacy, Belgrade; master's degree 1958, Ohio University, Athens, USA; Ph. D 1962, Faculty of Economics, Belgrade. J: 195463 research economist at the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade; 1963-92 professor at Faculty of Economics, Belgrade; since 1992 professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Ach: author of several hundred expert and scientific works, about twenty books, a few monographs and scientific projects; better known among them are Theory of International Commerce published 1973, The International Economic Relations 1977, Yugoslavia and the International Surroundings, published 1983, Integration and Disintegration of World Economy 1987, Yugoslav-American Economic Relations After the Second World War (co-author with J. Lampe and R. Pickett), published in 1990; corresponding member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences since 1991, the Scientific Society of Serbia, since 1970 and ASPEN Institute, Rome, since 1985; visiting professor at the universities in USA, Mexico, former Soviet Union, etc. Aw: 1968 recipient of Decoration of Labor with the Silver Laurel and 1980 with Decoration of Labor with the Red Flag, 1985 with Medal of Merit from Ohio University; 1989 the October reward from city of Belgrade.
Im: 1992; r. family. C: Yugoslav. Aff: n. Serbian; p. undetermined; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian, English, French and Russian. SL: St. John the Baptist.
FL: Moj Milane, jabuko… (My Milan, my apple…) H: music. A: Department of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180, USA.

AGIC DRAGAN, businessman. B: the Kozara area in Bosnia, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). J: worked in diamond mines in Botswana and with the money he earned began working in other fields of business; co-owner of construction firm Kap Ferat in Johannesburg.
Ach: active in the social life of the Serbian Diaspora; inter alia, participated in humanitarian activities of the collecting and distribution of humanitarian aid for the distressed people in his fatherland. H: hunting - passionate hunter (popularly known by the name Boer from Kozara). A: lives in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa.

ALAVANJA NADA, painter. B: July 13, 1952 Belgrade, Serbia. P: Petar; Dusanka, painters. FA: s. Tahir Lusic, painter; c. Sara. ED: degree in history of art at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. J: free-lance artist; one of the founders, along with Tahir Lusic, Vladimir Nikolic and Mileta Prodanovic, of the art group Alter Imago. Ach: participated in over twenty one-man and nearly one hundred group exhibitions, of which the most important are in the SKC Gallery, Belgrade, the Axe Art Actuel Gallery, Toulouse, the Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, the Artists' gatherings gallery, Subotica, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana; participated in the Yugoslav international selections displayed in the USA, France, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Italy, Cyprus, Egypt, and others. Aw: winner of Award for Painting at the Youth Biennial, Rijeka 1983; and of Artistic Autumns Award, Sombor, 1983. Im: 1992. A: Lives in Duseldorf, Germany.

ALBAHARI DAVID, writer, translator. B: March 15, 1948, Pec, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: David, doctor-gynecologist. FA: s. Bojana - Zivkovic, teacher; c. Natan (1986) pupil, Rebecca (1991) pupil. ED: diploma in English language and literature from Teachers' College Belgrade. Ach: writes narratives and short stories of modern world literature; in the mid-eighties founded and edited the Yugoslav journal for world literature Pismo (letter); published 1973 the collection of narratives Porodicno vreme (Family time), 1978 the collection Sudija Dimitrijevic I obicne price (Judge Dimitrijevic and Commonplace stories), 1982 Opis smrti Description of Death), 1984 Fras u supi (Shock in the shed), 1988 Jednostavnost (simplicity) and 1993 Pelerina (A cloak); wrote novels - 1988 Cink (Zinc), 1993 Kratka knjiga (A short book), 1995 Snezni covek (Snowman) and 1997 Mamac (Bait), compiled 1982 the anthologies Contemporary world stories, 1993 The Shortest Stories in the World; author of other prose works. Aw: winner of Andric award 1982, Stanislav Vinaver award 1993, Branko Copic award 1994, NIN weekly magazine award for the best novel 1997 - Mamac.
Im: 1994. Aff: Jewish. A: lives in Canada and Yugoslavia - 11080 Belgrade-Zemun, Karadjordjev trg 10.

ALEKSANDRIC VERA, poet, activist of the Diaspora. B: 1931, Obrenovac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. J: worked voluntarily at the Radio by the Workers Migrational Committee in Sydney; did other social jobs of interest for the life and work of Serbian people in Australia. Ach: aside from engagement in social affairs, she writes poetry, which was published in ethnic papers in Australia; represented in the emigrants' anthology Our Paths, published in Melbourne in 1986, in the anthology of world emigrants Homeland, I Dreamt of You Last Night, Bagdala, Krusevac 1980 and Homeland is the Prettiest Word, Delta Press, Belgrade 1983; published the book of poetry One Heart, Two Countries by Bagdala, Krusevac, in the edition of the Center of Emigrants from Serbia 1990, the book of prose Roots of Sorrow in the edition of the Center of Emigrants from Montenegro, Podgorica 1994, and the Echo of Pain in 1995, Privredni Pregled, Belgrade; she is one of the founders of the Serbian Writers society of Australia and New Zealand. Aw: winner of literary awards given to authors from the Diaspora in Australia - Njegos and Vuk Karadzic Awards and the Yugoslav Writers Society award. Im: 1966. A: lives in Australia.

ALEKSIC BRANKO, writer. B: April 15, 1951 Belgrade. ED: B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Faculty of Philology - Department of World literature, 1979, Belgrade; received Ph. D at Sorbonne, Paris; in Perugia, Italy, studies of Dante and the Renaissance, 1973. J: Director of the Center Meeting of Poetry and Philosophy in Paris; was lecturer at Harvard University; free-lance artist. Ach: he is the author of many poetry collections, essays, studies and a large number of other writings, published in the journals Gradina, Philosophic researches, Synthesis philosophica etc; the anthology Surrealistic Poetry in Belgrade 1924-33 (and in French 1985); cycle of essays Erotica Casanoviana; novel Abraxas; Ph D on Les surrealistes Yougoslaves a Paris de 1925 a nos jours. Aw: Zmaj awards 1965 and 1966; awards from Politika express 1965, Borba 1969 and Mladost 1967, '68 and '70; award from the French entre national des lettres 1989 for the best foreign writer. Im: lives in Paris since 1982 and in Belgrade. Aff: n. Serbian L: Serbian, French, English, Italian and Russian. A: lives in Paris, France and in Yugoslavia - 11000 Belgrade, Aleksinackih rudara 47.

ALEKSIC-ZECEVIC STOJANKA, medical scientist, university professor. B: December 4, 1934 Bacina near Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. ED: 1953 completed secondary school in Krusevac; 1960 graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade; specialized in microbiology and parasitology; completed specialization 1963 in Belgrade, and 1974 in Germany; Ph. D received in 1975; licensed 1978 to practice medicine in Germany, 1982 took a certificate in teaching microbiology and epidemiology of infectious deseases and 1992 qualified as professor of medical microbiology at Hamburg University. J: Internship and specialization completed at the clinics of the Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade; 1965-70 microbiologist at the Institute of Hygiene of Military General Hospital, Belgrade; since 1970 at the Institute of Hygiene, Hamburg, Germany.
Ach: she does research into bacteria of digestive organs and related diagnostic and immunological processes in infected organism; as a result numerous new types of salmonella have been discovered leading to modification of existing antigenic patterns and development of new ones; author of 165 research studies published in German and other medical journals or as a separate among which are Neues Fimbrienantigen als Ursache der volstandigen C- Inagglutinabilitat verschiedener Salmonella- Stamme, Fachbereich Medizin der Universitat Hamburg, 1974 (doctoral dissertation) (New Fimbrtinantigen as a cause of total C- inaglutaminability of different Salmonella trees, University of Medicine in Hamburg, special field doctoral dissertation 1974); Kulturelle, morphologische, immunochemische Untersuchung ( einschl. Isolation and Purifikation) verschiedener neuentdekter Fimbrienantigene bei Enterobakterien (Cultural, morphologic, immunochemical research /including isolation and purification/ of different new-discovered fimbrinoantigens in enterobacteria) (habilitation work), Hambgurg 1977; co-author of three books; her works have been quoted 3.224 times in scientific literature in German and other languages; 69 works have been published in German, 64 in English and the rest in Serbian and other languages; has conducted 54 seminars in Germany, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Bulgaria, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia Australia; member of the International subcommittee for taxonomy of enterobacteria, salmonellae and yersins; as WHO (World Health Organization) expert attended round table conferences on important issues of bacteriology and infectology in Orvieto and Rome (Italy), Melbourne (Australia), Fuji (Japan), Hamburg, Hanover and Wernigerode; in Germany member of several bodies - the Council and Commission for isolation and identification of enterobacteriaceae and the Commission for bacteriological diagnosis of intestinal infections, etc.; maintained regular contacts and cooperation with medical institutions and experts in the fatherland - in her laboratories worked 26 physicians from Yugoslavia; conducted ten seminars for the Yugoslav microbiologists' Society; wrote for medical journals sent professional literature to Yugoslavia and when the sanctions were imposed on Yugoslavia, she took pains to establish connections between the Yugoslav and international health organizations, UNICEF, German and American epidemiological departments, between Yugoslav medical experts and their counterparts in other countries, purchased equipment for laboratories and hospitals, sent medicaments and in other ways aided the people in her native country. A: lives in Hamburg, Germany.


ALEKSOV LJUBOMIR, pedagogic advisor. B: Dec. 26, 1958 Budapest, Hungary. P: Dimitrije; Julijana - Becejic. FA: s. Milica - Hranislav, Nursery school teacher; c. Predrag (1987), Nenad (1989). ED: graduated 1983 from the Faculty of Philosophy ELTE, Budapest.
J: worked in Technical School (Kinskunlachaza) 1983-93 as a history teacher; since 1993 works in the Department for Public Education and Services, Budapest, as pedagogic advisor. Ach: takes active part in social and political life of the Serbs in Hungary; during 1983-93 was member of the administration of Democratic Association of South Slavs (for Hungary); since 1990 chief official of the village Lovra; from 1992-95 organizational secretary of the Serbian Democratic Association; since 1995 vice-president of the self-government of the Serbs in Hungary, responsible for education. C: Hungarian. Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian and Hungarian. SL: St. John. A: Dundic u. 24, H-2309 Lorev, Hungary.

ALAMPIJEVIC MILUTIN, writer, retired professor. B: June 17, 1927 Draca near Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: Ljubomir; Bisenija - Dimitrijevic. FA: s. Kosana - Lukovic, schoolteacher; c. Slavica Milutinovic (1954), economist, Radmila Glisic (1956), lawyer. ED: graduated from high school 1948, Teacher Training School, Sarajevo; graduated 1952 from Teachers' College, Belgrade; graduated 1975 from the Faculty of Philology, Belgrade. J: 1950-57 schoolteacher at Trebotin School, Krusevac; 1958-80 teacher at Radmila Siskovic School, Smederevska Palanka; engaged in extra-curricular teaching in Germany - 1974-77 Stuttgard, 1980-95 Augsburg, Frankfurt; now retired. Ach: author of many books of poetry and prose, dealing especially with life of our Gastarbeiters - book of poetry You Have to Go Somewhere and the novel Battlefields, published in 1974 and 1981 respectively by Branicevo, Pozarevac; a book of poetry Words Like Hope (Our Word, Leskovac, 1993), and collection of short stories The Main Flows (Center of Emigrants from Serbia and Bagdala, 1995); book of aphorisms Complain to Marx (Literary Newspapers, 1989) with S. M. Stefanovic and D. Antov; A Postcard from Germany, 1992, Frankfurt/Main, The Language of My People, 1997, Frankfurt/Main; edited a few anthologies of prose and poetry of authors from Diaspora - Told in Verse, 1971, Smederevska Palanka, Dreaming Stars, Drops of Life, 1992, Frankfurt/Main, A Letter from the Main (with P. Saric and R. Zlatanovic) and Language Is Our Fatherland, 1996, Frankfurt/Main; initiator of a series of the same name, fused with Bagdala's Homeland, which published more than twenty books by writers from Diaspora; in 1987 he was founder of Yugoslav Literary Workshop, followed by the Society of Writers 7, in Frankfurt, which is the first local branch of the Serbian Authors' Society in the Diaspora. Aw: at the Second Congress of Writers from Diaspora his tale The Main Flows was voted the best.
Im: 1980; r. professional. C: Yugoslav. Aff: n. Serbian; rl: Orthodox. L: Serbian and German. SL: St. Eustatius (Oct. 3). FB: Seobe (Migrations) by M. Crnjanski. FL: poetry of Milan Rakic. H: painting - collage. HL: yes. A: Kirchhainerstrasse 57, 60433 Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.

ALIMPIJEVIC VLADAN, journalist, producer. B: Jan. 27, 1960 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. FA: s. Nadezda - Markovic, translator.
ED: graduated 1978 from high school, Belgrade; graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. J: free-lance journalist; journalist in TANJUG 1986-88; during 1989-90 was correspondent of British television WTV and News Network from Hungary, Romania, Germany and Czechoslovakia; journalist and operative editor of the News Desk, NTV Studio B 1991-94; executive producer in Spielberg's SHOA Foundation.
Ach: author of over fifty interviews, numerous TV shows, reports and accounts, which he often recorded himself, such as the shows Personal Travelog, the NTV Package, etc.; author of documentary series about Mount Athos and Chilandari, report on the fall of the Berlin wall, on the Revolution in Bucharest and other significant events; producer of four documentary films; executive producer in Spielberg's SHOA Foundation, which is involved in the study of genocide. Im: 1994. Aff: n. Serbian, English and Italian, uses Bulgarian, Russian and Czech. A: lives in Beijing, China and in Yugoslavia, Belgrade - Ul. Nedeljka Cabrinovica 48.

ANASTASIJEVIC BORIS, sculptor and graphic artist. B: Feb. 17, 1926 Seyssuel, France. ED: studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon; during 1947-53 in Paris on specialization in the Atelier of Ossip Zadkine. Ach: 1953-68 spent in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, had a large number of one-man and group exhibitions; one-man exhibitions - in Belgrade 1953, Zagreb 1954 and again in Belgrade 1955/56/58/64, and in Lyon in 1964, and in 1949 and 1974 in Paris, France; author of three monuments in the open air - the Miners Monument in Pljevlja 1960, the Explosion 1961 in Uzice and Hero's Monument 1965 in Belgrade; exhibited at many group exhibitions in Yugoslavia and in USA, Bulgaria, Burma, Great Britain, Italy, China, Hungary, Mexico, Germany, Romania, France, Switzerland; participated in the exhibition The Art of Serbian Artists in Diaspora 1990 at the National Museum in Belgrade; now lives in France. Aw: winner of the 1967 Award of the city of Belgrade for sculpture. A: Jean-Boris Anastassijevitch, 7, av. des 3 communes, 92600 Asnieres, France.

ANDRIC MIROSLAV, mechanical engineer. J: employed at the German Savings Bank, Trier. Ach: active in the humanitarian work in his community - in collecting aid for the Serbian people in Republic Srpska and Republic Srpska Krajina; during escalation of hostilities leading to the braking up of Yugoslav federation participated in numerous public discussions about Yugoslav crisis and the position of the Serbian people and their role in former Yugoslavia, and at the present time; his participation in the discussion concerning the same topic, organized by the German Evangelical Church aroused much attention. Aff: n. Serbian. A: Lives in Germany.

ANDRIC RADA, lab assistant; humanitarian activist. B: June 10, 1960 Milici, Veliki Zvornik, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia & Herzegovina - Republic Srpska). P: Vojko; Bogdana - Pajic. FA: s. Rade (divorced) Andric; c. Danijel (1983). ED: finished in 1981 the school of Nursing in Belgrade.
J: 1981-96 worked as a lab assistant at the Health Center, Veliki Zvornik, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic Srpska; in 1996 immigrated to Australia. Ach: although a refugee herself, engaged in the gathering of humanitarian aid for the refugees. Im: 1996; r. economic. C: Serbian.
Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox. L: Serbian and English. FL: folk songs. HL: yes. A: lives in Sydney, Australia.

ANDJELIC BRANKO BANE, businessman, initiator and organizer of the founding conference of the Serbian organization for New England, 1992 named the Serbian-American network for New England (SANE) and officially registered with the American authorities; he was elected as the first President of this organization. Worked on formulating its main tasks and goals: to provide the Serbs with proper information; to give the American public true information about the Serbs and their activities at home and counteract the negative effects of the American media regarding the struggle of the Serbian people to keep their freedom and unity; to develop the cultural, church and humanitarian activities of Serbs in that part of USA and to establish the Serbian Orthodox church in Boston, etc.; this organization had its own paper SANE news; with SANE representatives - he contacted the senators of Massachusetts Messrs. Kennedy and Kelly and had discussions with them and with State Department representatives; he organized protest meetings, forums and other gatherings, wrote articles, letters of protest and other texts and sent them to the Boston Globe, Times, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post and other American newspapers, concerning their about Serbs; he organized and took active part in collecting humanitarian help for Serbian people in the war-devastated regions; organized the treatment of about seventy seriously wounded Serbs; participated in other activities. A: lives in Boston, USA.

ANDJELKOVIC GORAN, manager. B: Nov. 11, 1965 Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: Dragoslav; Snezana - Lazarevic. FA: s. Cecile, - Ruviella, analyst - programmer. ED: completed a two-year course of study at the Vocational School (natural Sciences and mathematics division), 1982, Kragujevac, and a two-year course in electro-technics at the Vocational School, 1984, Belgrade, and a course in business administration, 1987, Kragujevac; in France, attended Cycle Superieur de Technicien des Forces des Ventes, 1996. J: worked as a salesman 1986-91; computer repairman and travelling salesman in Kragujevac and Belgrade; 1991-92 founder and owner of the Aneks-Internacional Co., Kragujevac; 1994-95 advisor in the Laboratoires Nutrimetics France, Buc, France; 1994-96 direct sales advisor in Cabouchon LTD, Brentford, Great Britain; 1996-97 worked as expert (manager for Eastern Europe) for S.A. Delviel, Bergerac, France, and LPF, Ansonia, USA. Ach: since 1992 campaigning for condemnation of lies spread about the Serbian people, trying to awaken the interest of the French public and French people of Serbian origin for our cultural heritage, folklore and customs; trustee of the Serbian Orthodox Parish in Kragujevac for France; initiated erection of a memorial at the 1918 Serbian Cemetery, in Sallanches; took part in the founding of the Pan-Serbian Association of Southern France, Lyon, 1994. Aw: National First Aid Diploma (Charente district), France, and several recognitions from the Serbian Red Cross, Serbian Orthodox Church and other organizations.
Im: 1992. C: Yugoslav and French. Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox; p. patriotic. L: Serbian, French and English; uses Japanese, Chinese, Breton, German and Slavic languages. SL: Djurdjic (Nov. 16 - Renovation of the Church of St. George). FB: epic and lyric folk literature. FL: Deda I unuk (Grandad and grandson) by J. J. Zmaj.H: folk songs and dances, mountain climbing, Serbian martial arts, astronomy, ethnology, computers, coats of arms and insignia (heraldic symbols and amblems). HL: yes. A: La Tuilliere Les Pommiers, 24700 St. Remy sur Lidoire, France.

ANDJELKOVIC SAVA, Serbian language and literature instructor in the department of Slavic Languages at Paris University IV. Ach: besides instructor's work in three years he staged four plays by Yugoslav authors, performed by his students - A Stuck-Up Woman, Marriage and Wedding, Liar and Super Liar by Sterija Popovic and Female Talks by Dusko Radovic; organized theatre workshop, Atelier-theatre in Serbian; in 1977 in Grand Palais, Paris, the students of Serbian language and literature performed under his direction the premiers of Liar and Super liar by Sterija Popovic and Female talks by Dusko Radovic. C: Yugoslav and French. Aff: n. Serbian. L: Serbian and French. A: lives in Paris, France.

ANCIC NICIFOR NICK, businessman. J: owner of a company in the machines industry. Ach: engaged in establishing diplomatic and economic relations between South Africa, in which he lives and does business, and Yugoslavia; active in the social life of the Serbian community in that country; inter alia, engaged in humanitarian activities for helping the people in affliction in his fatherland. A: Post Office Box 4078, Germinston South 1411, Republic of South Africa.

ANTIC JOVAN, doctor-anesthesiologist. B: November 14, 1938 Ub, Serbia, Yugoslavia. P: Bozidar; Vera - Jelcic. FA: Milica - Medakovic, doctor, anesthesiologist; c. Aleksandar (1971) lawyer, Igor (1975) student. ED: graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade. J: 1968-77 senior doctor in the university hospital/Oberarzt-Universitatsspital/Zurich, Switzerland; since 1977 chief of medical staff in Sanatorium Sanitas (Leitender Arzt-Krankenhaus Sanitas), Kilcherberg, Switzerland. Ach: In his professional he is a well-known expert; active in religious and humanitarian affairs of the Serbian Community; Vice-President of the Serbian Orthodox Parish in Zurich. Im: 1966. C: Yugoslav and Swiss.
Aff: n. Serbian; rl. Orthodox.L: Serbian, German, English. SL: St. Archangel Michael. FB: Lagum (Subterranean Passage) by Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic. FL: Tamo daleko… (Somewhere far away) H: music, sport.HL: yes. A: lives in Switzerland.

ANTOLOVIC MARKO, businessman. B: born just before the Second World War at Basici, Istria, Italy. FA: s. Maureen; three daughters, son-in-laws, grandchildren. Ach: one of the best-known businessmen involved in the gem business in Australia and one of the world's leading experts in gemology; started some twenty years ago as a miner, dug opal in the Australian mines containing that precious mineral; then started commercial affairs, graduated in Santa Monica City C. and developed his own business with precious stones in Australia, USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong; he is a share-holder in other jewel firms too. A: lives on the Gold Coast, Australia.

ANTONIC SLOBODAN LALE - see under name JANJICIC.

ANTONIJEVIC PREDRAG-GAGA, film director. J: Film director. Before he moved to America had directed several films in Yugoslavia; since 1992 lives in USA, Hollywood, for professional reasons. Ach: In Yugoslavia had directed the following films: Of the Dead Nothing but Good, The Little Girl, and in USA directed the film The Saviour, an American-Yugoslav co-production, produced by Oliver Stone, Hollywood, USA and the Belgrade company Komuna; the film which was shot in winter 1997/98 mainly on locations in Montenegro and Yugoslavia deals with the tragedy brought about the war in Bosnia trying to avoid stereotype ways; at many international film festivals the film was awarded the prize for the best female role, a Serbian girl acted by Natasa Ninkovic; other actors in the film are Dennis Quade, Sergej Trifunovic and Natasha Kinski and Robert Orr wrote the script. Im: 1992; r. professional. A: lives in USA.

APIC ZIVKO, bookseller. B: October 17, 1928, Zabalj near Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia. FA: s. Olga; c. Milica, Djordje and Predrag. J: worked in the Library of York University until he retired; the owner of bookshop New Serbica, Toronto, Canada. Ach: has been involved in the bookselling almost thirty years - opened the bookshop Serbica (up to 1990 it was Yugoslavica); this is considered to be the biggest bookshop of Serbian Diaspora in the world and the biggest in North America; it stocks all significant editions of Serbian authors in the world; participates in the distribution of literary works from Yugoslavia on Canadian and American markets as well as of books from these markets in Yugoslavia; at the time of Yugoslavian isolation, when Canadian authorities in 1994 tried due to sanctions, to stop the selling of books from Yugoslavia, thanks to the Canadian PEN and the resolution of multicultural relations adopted at the PEN Congress in Prague, Serbica obtained the status of all other bookshops in the world; he regularly visits The Belgrade Book Fair; besides bookselling he is involved in publishing, specially of parallel bilingual English-Serbian editions, such as: The Bible, The Garland from the Mountains (Gorski vijenac) by Njegos, the book of poetry by D. Maksimovic Greetings from the Native Land (Pozdravi iz starog kraja); he is planning to publish Who is who: Serbs in the USA and Canada. Im: 1952. L: Serbian, English. HL: yes. A: lives in Toronto, Canada.

APOSTOLOVIC MARINA - see under the name MILIC.

ARANDJELOVIC PREDRAG PEDJA, graduate economist and researcher. R: 1975, Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia. ED: attended Bora Stankovic High School, Nis; completed high school in Texas, USA; graduated economy and finances 1997 at Louisiana State University; attends the post- graduate study at the International School of Finance and Management, Thunderbird, Arizona. Ach: finished his studies in record time and with the highest average possible; fulfilled conditions for enrolment in the post-graduate studies at this prestigious school, for which working experience of at least five years was required; engaged himself right away in concrete scientific research and analytical work in the field of international finance; the youngest student in that specialized institution of higher education (at only twenty-three years of age has already completed two semesters) and plans to take a master's degree in 1999; currently he is doing practical work at the Siemens company; also does projects and presentations of Yugoslav firms on the Internet, as well as other offers from the field of economic and financial management.A: lives in Thunderbird, Arizona, USA.

ARAMBASIC GINA, ARTIST. B: May 11, 1932 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. ED: studied at the Arts Academy, Venice, Italy; attended the painting course with professor Novelli and professor Solarski; in 1987 graduated at the Alvarez Penteado Faculty. J: free-lance artist; in 1941 went to Italy, in 1952 to Brazil. Ach: involved in painting, sculpture and design; has exhibited since 1974 in many group exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal and USA; Participated in the exhibition The Art of Serbian Artists in Diaspora staged in 1990 at the National Museum in Belgrade. Aw: for her works she received several awards. A: Rua Pisui, 461 Sao Paulo, Brazil; tel.: 256 8106.

ARMILIATO IRENA - see under the name ZARIC.

AROK GORDANA - see under the name DIVLJAK

ARSIC PRVOSLAV, painter. B: May 12, 1933, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. ED: graduated 1959 from Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade.
Ach: inspired by the medieval alchemists, he built his own style of artistic expression - alchemistic painting; exhibited 1972 at the Salon des Comparaisons and 1973 at the May Salon; had one-man exhibitions in Paris 1974 and 1975 at the Galerie Alexander Braumuller, 1975-77 in the Gallery Hardy, 1978 in the Galerie L'Oeuf de Baubourg, and in the Galerie Quartier Latin in Clermont-Ferrand, etc.; participated in the exhibition The Art of Serbian Artists in Diaspora, 1990 at the National Museum in Belgrade; a large number of his paintings are in private collections round the world.Im: 1959. A: 13, Square Jean Lurcat, 95120 Ermont, France.

AVRAMOVIC BORIVOJE, Founder of the Church of the Nativity of the most Holy Theotokos in Buenos Aires, Argentina; was active in the construction of the church and with his family is its benefactor; the church was built between 1986 and mid-nineteen nineties and consecrated in 1995; for this contribution to its building he was given the title of Founder and the Medal of St. Sava, First Class, granted by the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church. A: lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

AVRAMOVIC ZORKA - see under the name CORDASEVIC.

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