The writer and screenwriter Branimir Šćepanović (1937) died in the Home for the Elderly in Bežania, Belgrade media announced.
The news about Šćepanović's death was announced on social networks by writer and publisher Zoran Živković, reports Danas.rs.
Šćepanović was born in 1937 in Podgorica, and among his most famous works is the novel "Usta puna zemlje", published in 10 editions in Serbian and in 27 foreign editions, and it was translated into all important world languages, while it had as many as 23 editions in French. .
The novella "The Death of Mr. Goluža" was included in several world anthologies, and in 2008, the Nolita edition also published the Selected Works of Branimir Šćepanović.
Šćepanović's short stories were printed as books in French, Greek, Hungarian, Slovenian and Bulgarian, and individually - in newspapers and magazines, and in many other languages.
They have been included in eighteen anthologies here and abroad.
Šćepanović published three novels - "Usta puna zemlje", "Sramno ljeto" and "Iskupjelje", short stories "Srmt Mr. Goluža" and "Prije istine", and six feature films were made based on his scripts.
He also won two Golden Arenas for the film script at the festival in Pula (1963 and 1973).
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