Milovan Glišić
Milovan Glišić was a Serbian writer, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist. He is sometimes referred to as the Serbian Gogol.
Legacy
Glišić is considered to be one of the best translators of his time and several of his short stories including Prva Brazda and Glava Šećera are studied in Serbian schools and included in various anthologies of short stories.His translations of Russian writers Gogol and Tolstoy significantly influenced Serbian culture of that time and future writers Stevan Sremac, Svetozar Ćorović, Branislav Nušić and many others.
According to Slobodan Jovanović, Glišić was one of the first Serbian short story writers to attempt a more serious characterization in his works.
He was awarded Order of the Cross of Takovo and Order of St. Sava of the third and the fourth class.
Works
Comedies
- Two Farthings, 1882.
- The Hoax, 1885.
Short stories
- Ni oko šta
- Vujina prosidba
- Učitelj
- Redak zver
- Tetka Desa
- Zlosutni broj
- Novi Mesija
- Glava šećera
- Prva brazda
- Posle devedeset godina
- Šetnja posle smrti
- U zao čas
- Svirač
- Raspis
- Sigurna većina
- Noć na mostu
- Nagraisao
- Roga
- Šilo za ognjilo
- Zadušnice
Translations
- Zla svekrva, Alexander Ostrovsky, 1881.
- Kola mudrosti, dvoja ludosti, Alexander Ostrovsky, 1882.
- Nov posao, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, 1883.
- Sve za sina, Emil Ožje, 1884.
- Naslednik, Emil Ožje, 1884.
- Gavran, Alphonse Daudet, 1888.
- La Peau de chagrin, Honoré de Balzac, 1888.
- Princess Maleine, Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck, 1897.
- La Sanfelice, Alexandre Dumas, 1881.
- Plemićka, Fos, 1882.
- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol, 1872.
- Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol, 1876.
- Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, Nikolai Gogol, 1870.
- Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov, 1876.
- The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy, 1890.
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1899.
- Narodni borac, unknown author
- Polkanovi memoari, Nikolai Leykin
- Kolombo, Prosper Mérimée, 1877.
- Brđani, Erckmann-Chatrian, 1878.
- Dva brata, Émile Erckmann-Chatrian, 1878.
- Crna kuga, Émile Erckmann-Chatrian, 1878.
- Doctor Ox, Jules Verne, 1878.
- Tartarin of Tarascon, Alphonse Daudet
- Le Nabab, Alphonse Daudet
- The Man-wolf, Erckmann-Chatrian
- L’Invasion ou le Fou Yégof, Erckmann-Chatrian
- Ubistvo u ulici Morg, Edgar Allan Poe
- Srce izdajice, Edgar Allan Poe
- Strahovita noć
- Le Fils de Giboyer, Émile Augier
- La pierre de touche, Émile Augier