Danilo Kis

About

A Serbian-Yugoslavian fiction writer and poet, he is best known for novels such as Hourglass (1972) and Psalm 44 (1962). His late short story collection, The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983), established his reputation as one of the most important Yugoslavian authors of his generation.

Before Fame

His Jewish father was killed in a Nazi concentration camp, and he lived with his mother and sister in Hungary during the remainder of World War II. He published his first novel, Mansarda (The Attic), in 1962.

Trivia

He died of lung cancer in 1989, shortly after wrapping production on an Israeli television miniseries.

Family Life

He married Mirjana Miocinovic in 1962. He separated from Miocinovic in 1981, at which point he became involved with Pascale Delpech.

Associated With

He was influenced by the work of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov.