Živan Milisavac, academician, writer, (Batrovci, Srem, 1915-Novi Sad, 1997).
Prominent member and director of numerous cultural institutions of
Novi Sad - Before
Novi Sad - Now
and Vojvodina,
initiator of a series of important events in Serbian culture (The Novi Sad
Agreement, 1954; Sterija Therater Festival, 1956; Zmaj Children’s Festival,
1957). From 1945 to 1969 (with an intermission from 1954 to 1956) he was the
secretary of
and editor
of Letopis from 1946 to 1957; and from 1983 to 1991 he was the
president of Matica Srpska. He regularly included Letopis in the
history of Matica Srpska (History of Matica Srpska, I: 1826–1864, Novi
Sad 1986; II: 1864–1880, Novi Sad 1992; III: 1880–1918, Novi Sad
2000). Some of the projects in which Milisavac participated in the design and
implementation include the capital edition of Matica and the Serbian Literary
Association ‘Serbian literature in one hundred books’, as well as the
multi-volume Lexicon of the writers of Yugoslavia. He is the author of
several monographs and collections of studies on new Serbian literature (V.
Stajić, D. Vasiljev, Zmaj, J.S. Popović and others).