Milan Bogdanović


Milan Bogdanović was a Serbian writer and literary critic.

Biography

He finished elementary school and gymnasium in Pozarevac where his father was the then administrator of the royal estate Ljubičevo. He was the editor of the "Serbian Literary Messenger", the newspaper "Danas" and "Književne novine", as well as the theater manager in Novi Sad and Belgrade. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
His works were published in the multicultural book entitled "Old and New". In 1968, Milan Bogdanović Award for literary criticism was introduced.
In the marriage with Mileva Mihailović, he had two children. His son is an architect and former Mayor of Belgrade Bogdan Bogdanović, and daughter Ivana Bogdanović was a professor of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade and the mother of writer Ivan Djurić.
Milan Bogdanović is buried in the Belgrade New Cemetery's Alley of the Greats.