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Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović ({{lang-sr-cyr|Љиљана Хабјановић Ђуровић; born 6 September 1953}}) is a prominent author in Serbia.

Literary career

Habjanović Đurović's biography indicates that she was born in Kruševac, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She received her elementary and high school education in the city and later graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics. She worked as a bank clerk, a commercialist in the field of foreign tourism, and a journalist for Duga before devoting herself to a full-time literary career in 1996. She is the owner of the publishing house Globosino Aleksandrija, which she founded in 2003.^[1]

She has published fourteen novels, many of which have been best-sellers in Serbia. Her recognitions include the prestigious Zlatni beočug award (2008) and the award Vukova nagrada (2009), the latter of which she received for her contributions to Serbian culture. She has been recognized by the Serbian Orthodox Church for the role of spirituality in her literature.^[2]

Habjanović Đurović's works have also gained a following in other countries. She received the Zlatni Vitez (Golden Knight) literary award in Russia in 2011,^[3] and she has received significant recognition in Italy.^[4] The 2016 Italian language translation of her work Ana Maria Did Not Love Me received a favourable review published via the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata wire service; among other things, this piece commended Habjanović Đurović's depictions of strong female characters throughout her works.^[5]

Habjanović Đurović defended the response of various Muslim organizations in Serbia to the publication of Sherry Jones's The Jewel of Medina in August 2008. Jones's book was widely criticized by Muslim groups for its depiction of Muhammad's wife Aisha; in Serbia, Muslim community leaders requested and received an apology from the book's publisher. The community leaders added that they had no interest in banning literature but simply wished to draw attention to the desecration of their faith that they identified in the book. Some Serbian literary figures, including Aleksandar Čotrić, described the response of Serbia's Muslim organizations as "excessive." Habjanović Đurović disagreed, saying, "An author that writes about true actions and events has a responsibility to travel and investigate these events' historical background. This is especially important when one writes about the heritage of a nation that one does not belong to. [...] When I was writing An Observation of the Soul, in the segment where I wrote about Skanderbeg, I had to study Albanian history of the fifteenth century."^[6]

Engagement with politics

Habjanović Đurović was identified in a 1997 Washington Post article as a close friend of Mirjana Marković, at the time the wife and subsequently the widow of Slobodan Milošević. In 1994, she wrote an article in the Serbian media describing the initial meeting of Milošević and Marković at high school in Požarevac, as Marković was reading Sophocles's Antigone. In Habjanović Đurović's account, Marković's "sorrow" from the early death of her mother attracted her to Milošević, as he "felt the need to relieve her pain, to protect and cherish her."^[7] A May 1999 New York Times article, which identified Habjanović Đurović as Marković's "hagiographer," also cited her as having written that Marković "always openly and boldly claimed that [Milošević] would have been quite different without her, worse in every respect, and that everything good about him came from her and that everything that is not good is where her influence didn't reach."^[8]

In February 2008, shortly after the government of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, she wrote an article for the paper Večernje novosti with the title, "Kosovo's non-oblivion: Occupation will pass." This work included the statement, "[N]o official of the state of Serbia must ever accept the secession of part of our country. Or succumb to delusions based on promises. Or get scared by threats. Each and every one of us must keep awareness inside us and pass it onto our descendants - that Kosovo-Metohija is a Serb land and that this which has happened is occupation that will end, just like any other occupation."^[9]

Habjanović Đurović was herself elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2016 parliamentary election, after she was included in the ninth position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list as a non-partisan candidate and the list won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.^[10] She declined her mandate, saying that she was grateful to have contributed to Vučić's victory but wanted to devote her full attentions to writing.^[11] Officially, the National Assembly lists her as having been a deputy on 3 June 2016, after the new assembly met and before her resignation took effect.^[12]

Published works

She also wrote a book on publishing entitled Србија пред огледалом (Serbia in Front of a Mirror) (1994), and in 2017 she released three stories for children.^[13] Habjanović Đurović has also published anthologies of devotional poetry.^[14]

References

1. ^Biography, http://www.habjanovic.rs/, accessed 24 July 2018.
2. ^"Висока црквена одликовања заслужним прегаоцима", Serbian Orthodox Church, 25 November 2016, accessed 24 July 2018.
3. ^'Златни витез' Љиљани Хабјановић Ђуровић, Politika, 4 May 2011, accessed 24 July 2018.
4. ^"Признање Љиљани Хабјановић Ђуровић", Politika, 5 November 2012, accessed 24 July 2018.
5. ^Marzia Apice, "ANSA/ Libri: le donne forti di Ljiljana Habjanovic Djurovic," ANSA - General News, 29 November 2016.
6. ^"Serbia: Writers, analysts differ on Islamic bodies' reaction to book publication," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 22 August 2008 (Source: Vecernje novosti website, Belgrade, in Serbian 20 Aug 08).
7. ^Michael Dobbs, "Milosevic's Mira Image; Some Serbs Call Her His Juliet. Others Say She's His Lady Macbeth," Washington Post, 15 January 1997, D01.
8. ^Steven Erlanger, "The First Lady of Serbia Often Has the Last Word," New York Times, 31 May 1999, p. 1. This statement has also appeared in various other sources. See also Olivia Ward, "Black Widow to skip funeral; As Slobodan Milosevic is buried today, his personal and political partner responsible for his rise survives in exile," Toronto Star, 18 March 2016, A1, which alludes to Habjanović Đurović's "breathless" prose in describing the partnership of Milošević and Marković.
9. ^"Serbian press upbeat on Russia's Medvedev visit, positively views gas deal," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 26 February 2008 (Source: Vecernje novosti, 26 February 2008).
10. ^Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
11. ^[https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/habjanovic-djurovic-zasto-nisam-prihvatila-da-budem-poslanik/ewv3mzx "Habjanovič Đurović: Zašto nisam prihvatila da budem poslanik"], Blic (Source: Tanjug), 4 June 2016, accessed 24 July 2018.
12. ^Current Legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 July 2018.
13. ^Marina Mirković, "Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović za 'Novosti': Deci se podmeću lažne vrednosti, Novosti, 5 November 2017, accessed 24 July 2018.
14. ^Biography, http://www.habjanovic.rs/, accessed 24 July 2018.