17. 01. 2005

JOURNALIST DIES

BELGRADE, January 17, 2005 – Celebrated philologist and journalist Branislav Milosevic died in Belgrade yesterday at the age of 58. Milosevic was born in Belgrade on August 1, 1946. He was noted for his extraordinary intellectual, political and critical articles which he often wrote as a direct participant of turbulent political changes. He was also a dramatist, with works produced by the Yugoslav Drama Theatre and the Marxist Serbian Centre, as well as a correspondent of the magazines Komunist, Vidici and Student. He was theatre critic for daily Borba and Scena magazine, as well as being director and editor-in-chief of the Rad publishing company. During 1986 and 1987, Milosevic was Serbia’s minister for culture. After directly confronting the Milosevic regime in the article “A dot to jot” in NIN in 1987, Milosevic became a victim of political purges. Two years later he was unemployed. He was a columnist for the Zagreb magazine Danas, Slobodna Dalmacija, Ljubljana Dnevnik, the Belgrade weeklies NIN and Reporter, Nova Politicka Misao and dailies Politika, Blic and Borba. Milosevic was also director of Borba in the early 1990s and was a founder, director and columnist of Nasa Borba. He was presenter of the Radio Television Serbia program Fridays at 10.00 p.m. and was Strasbourg and Berlin correspondent for SENSE news agency. He also published columns in the Belgian magazine Knack, the Independent in Britain, the French Figaro and others. Milosevic published a collection of his polemic and critical articles, The First Ten Years as a review of events from 1986 to 1999. He leaves an unfinished manuscript for a second book, Another Ten Years.