Milo Lompar
Milo Lompar is a Serbian literary historian, professor at the University of [Belgrade Faculty of Philology|Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade], writer, president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment and former director general of Serbian media corporation Politika.
Biography
Lompar was born in 1962 in Belgrade which at that time was part of Yugoslavia and is of paternal Montenegrin Serb descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He received his doctorate at the same faculty with a thesis on the historical, poetic and literary heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the late works of Miloš Crnjanski before a committee consisting of academician Nikola Milošević, prof. dr. Jovan Deretić and prof. dr. Novica Petković.At the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, he is a professor of Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as cultural history of the Serbs.
He was the general director of Politika in the period 2005–2006.
In 2018, the Serbian Literary Guild published a book of texts about the painter Petar Lubarda, titled Knjiga o Lubardi. The selection of texts was made by Professor Milo Lompar.
Political involvement
At the beginning of Serbia’s multi-party system in the 1990s, he was a member of the Serbian Liberal Party, a splitter of the Democratic Party.As a non-partisan member of the Dveri Political Council, which he joined in 2015 along with Kosta Čavoški, Aleksandar Lipkovski, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Zoran Čvorović and other national conservative oriented intellectuals, he was part of the Dveri and Democratic Party of Serbia political coalition that entered the National Assembly in the 2016 parliamentary elections. He left the Dveri Political Council in January 2018.
Lompar refused to speak at the ceremonial academy marking the 800th anniversary of the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church, held on October 8, 2019, at the Sava Center in Belgrade, because he opposed the decision of the Holy Synod of Bishops and Patriarch Irinej to award the Order of Saint Sava First Class, the highest honor of the Serbian Orthodox Church, to Aleksandar Vučić.
In April 2022, Lompar signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it 2022 [Russian invasion of Ukraine|invaded Ukraine].
He supported the 2024–25 student-led protests and spoke at the Vidovdan protest, held in Belgrade on 28 June 2025.
Views and controversies
In June 2025, he participated in the promotion of Radovan Karadžić’s poetry collection Black Fairy Tale at the Serbian Literary Guild, an appearance that drew public criticism due to Karadžić being a convicted war criminal. Lompar later clarified that his participation in the promotion and his signature on a congratulatory telegram to Karadžić were personal decisions, not official acts, and that the poems had been published before the 1990s wars; he described the publication as justified "for democratic reasons" and stated that the event did not have a political character.In a guest appearance on a Serbian right-wing YouTube podcast named Podcast At Brane's, which aired on July 17, 2025, Lompar expressed views defending the actions of Milan Nedić and his collaborationist Government of National Salvation during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia, of which he was the sole prime minister throughout the war. He stated that Nedić was a collaborationist, but not a quisling, and that he was "extorted" to collaborate with the occupier. In a later interview with Radio Free Europe, Lompar further added that the opinions he stated were "established historical facts".