105 years since the birth of Ćamil Sijarić was marked with the speech of well-known Montenegrin writer and journalist Andrej Nikolaidis and the screening of the documentary film “Bajkoviti pripovjedač” by Bogić Rakočević, created in the co-production of TVCG and the Center for the Preservation and Development of Minority Cultures in Montenegro, last night at the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.
His lavish artistic gift was above all narrative and it was realized in its fullest extent through numerous stories and novels with themes from his native Sandjak and the history of the Balkans.
“Ćamil Sijarić is a classic of Montenegrin, Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Yugoslav literature and this could not be changed by future. Although literary trends are strange, often incomprehensible, always transient, not one familiar method of evaluating literature in the explored part of the universe could not harm Sijarić’s work”, said Nikolaidis.
According to Nikolaidis, Sijarić’s text was resistant to ideological manipulations that have been massacring Yugoslav literature during the last thirty years.
Speaking of Sijarić’s life and creativity, Nikolaidis mentioned the Montenegrin writer Marko Vešović, who comprehended Ćamil less as our contemporary, and more like a mythical narrator who has spoken about something older and deeper, more general, more important and more exciting because it has been more real and more innovative than any personal experience.
Ćamil Sijarić was born in Šipovice village on September 13, 1913. He finished the elementary school in Godijevo near Bijelo Polje, high school in Vranje, and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1940. During the World War II he served in Sarajevo, Mostar, Bosanska Gradišica and Banja Luka. He was elected secretary of the National People’s Honor Court in Banja Luka in 1945, after which he was a journalist of the newspaper “Glas” and a playwright of the National Theater in Banja Luka. He moved to Sarajevo in 1947 and worked in the editorial board of the newspaper “Pregled”. After that, he was in the main committee of the National Front and the editorial staff of “Zadrugari”.
He wrote following novels: “Bihorci”, “Raška zemlja Rascija”, “Carska vojska”, “Mojkovačka bitka”, stories: “Ram bulja”, “Naša snaha i mi momci”, “Kuću kućom čine lastavice”, “Sablja”, “Putnici na putu”, “Kad djevojka spava”, “Zelen prsten na vodi”, “Priče kod vode”, “Rimski prsten”, “Francuski pamuk”, for which he received the Andriććs Award, and others.
Although he wrote poems “Lirika” and “Koliba na nebu” while still in high school, they were published in 1988 and 1990. He died on December 6, 1989.
105 years since the birth of Ćamil Sijarić was marked with the speech of well-known Montenegrin writer and journalist Andrej Nikolaidis and the screening of the documentary film “Bajkoviti pripovjedač” by Bogić Rakočević, created in the co-production of TVCG and the Center for the Preservation and Development of Minority Cultures in Montenegro, last night at the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje.
His lavish artistic gift was above all narrative and it was realized in its fullest extent through numerous stories and novels with themes from his native Sandjak and the history of the Balkans.
“Ćamil Sijarić is a classic of Montenegrin, Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Yugoslav literature and this could not be changed by future. Although literary trends are strange, often incomprehensible, always transient, not one familiar method of evaluating literature in the explored part of the universe could not harm Sijarić’s work”, said Nikolaidis.
According to Nikolaidis, Sijarić’s text was resistant to ideological manipulations that have been massacring Yugoslav literature during the last thirty years.
Speaking of Sijarić’s life and creativity, Nikolaidis mentioned the Montenegrin writer Marko Vešović, who comprehended Ćamil less as our contemporary, and more like a mythical narrator who has spoken about something older and deeper, more general, more important and more exciting because it has been more real and more innovative than any personal experience.
Ćamil Sijarić was born in Šipovice village on September 13, 1913. He finished the elementary school in Godijevo near Bijelo Polje, high school in Vranje, and graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1940. During the World War II he served in Sarajevo, Mostar, Bosanska Gradišica and Banja Luka. He was elected secretary of the National People’s Honor Court in Banja Luka in 1945, after which he was a journalist of the newspaper “Glas” and a playwright of the National Theater in Banja Luka. He moved to Sarajevo in 1947 and worked in the editorial board of the newspaper “Pregled”. After that, he was in the main committee of the National Front and the editorial staff of “Zadrugari”.
He wrote following novels: “Bihorci”, “Raška zemlja Rascija”, “Carska vojska”, “Mojkovačka bitka”, stories: “Ram bulja”, “Naša snaha i mi momci”, “Kuću kućom čine lastavice”, “Sablja”, “Putnici na putu”, “Kad djevojka spava”, “Zelen prsten na vodi”, “Priče kod vode”, “Rimski prsten”, “Francuski pamuk”, for which he received the Andriććs Award, and others.
Although he wrote poems “Lirika” and “Koliba na nebu” while still in high school, they were published in 1988 and 1990. He died on December 6, 1989.