Milan Komnenić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Комненић; 8 November 1940 – 24 July 2015) was a Serbian poet, translator, essayist and politician.[1]
Biography
Komnenić was born on 8 November 1940 in the village of Pilatovci near Nikšić in present-day Montenegro.
He edited the literary magazines Vidici, Delo, and Relation, and also worked as an editor in the publishing house Prosveta. He initiated three editions: Erotikon, Prosveta, and Hispanoamerički roman. He translated works from Italian, French, Spanish and German with over fifty translated books.
As a poet, he published his first book in 1966. It was a poetry book titled Noć pisana noću. His first poems tend to renew the unjustly neglected past, while later he turned to anti-poetry. He composed a large number of songs according to the principles of critical neorealism. His poems have been included in several anthologies, and his poetry and essays have been translated into many languages (French, Italian, English, Russian, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Slovenian and Macedonian). Among other things, he translated from the French original an extensive study by Denis de Rougemont called Love in the Western World.
He published twenty-one collections of poems, four books of reviews, two anthologies and more than 200 articles.[3] He was awarded the Mladost Award, Isidora Sekulić Award (for his 1975 essay Eros i znak) and the Milan Rakić Award.
