Danilo Kiš
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Danilo Kiš was a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead. Life and work Early life Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia . Kiš was the son of Eduard Kiš , a Hungarian-speaking Jewish railway inspector and Milica , a Montenegrin Serb from Cetinje. His father was born in Austria-Hungary with the surname Kohn, but changed it to Kis as part of Magyarization, a widely implemented practice at the time. Kiš's parents met in 1930 in Subotica and married the following year. Milica gave birth to a daughter, Danica, in Zagreb in 1932 before the family relocated to Subotica.
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