Description Known as a master of short fiction from the late twentieth-century, Yugoslav author Danilo Kis was a devoted poet from his early years until his death in 1989.
His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead..
Kis was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ivo Andric and Miroslav Krleza, [1] among Other authors.
Danilo Kis (Serbian Cyrillic: 22 February 1935 - 15 October 1989) was a Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator.
The History of Serbia (2002), Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties (2005), and translations of novels by Danilo Kis and Ivan Cankar are among his chief publications.
He received his undergraduate degree from Guilford College and earned his doctorate at Indiana University.
Cox is professor and department head in history at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
About the Author John K.
This book brings together selected Poems by Kis in English translation for the first time.
Description Known as a master of short fiction from the late twentieth-century, Yugoslav author Danilo Kis was a devoted poet from his early years until his death in 1989
