Sava Babic
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Sava Babić is a Serbia
n writer, poet, translator and university professor.
from Hercegovina.
From the autumn of 1941 he studied at a Hungarian school.
He finished the high school in Subotica
. In 1953 he passed the school-leaving exam, then studied Yugoslav literature at the University of Belgrade
.
He worked for several publishing houses and cultural institutions.
Since 1974 he taught at the universities of Novi Sad
, then Belgrade
, where in 1993 he founded the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, and worked as its head till 1999, when he retired.
In 2007 he received the Golden Cross of Merit of Hungary.
Babić is also an honorary citizen of Balatonfüred
.
His first translation was a novel of Tibor Cseres: Hideg napok.
It was an important gesture of reconciliation between Serbs and Hungarians, because Cseres's book recalls the killings in Bačka
committed by Josip Broz Tito
's Partisans
against Hungarian civilians.
Babić translated also the works of Sándor Petőfi
, István Örkény
, Miklós Hubay, Gyula Illyés
, Tibor Déry
, Gyula Krúdy
, István Eörsi, Sándor Weöres
, Ádám Bodor
, Lajos Szabó, Ottó Tolnai and Péter Esterházy
.
He also translated all books of Béla Hamvas
. Some works of Hamvas were published in Serbian language before the Hungarian edition.
Babić recently translated some works of Imre Madách
and Sándor Márai
, but these translations have not been published yet.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n writer, poet, translator and university professor.
His life
Sava Babić's parents arrived to VojvodinaVojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
from Hercegovina.
From the autumn of 1941 he studied at a Hungarian school.
He finished the high school in Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
. In 1953 he passed the school-leaving exam, then studied Yugoslav literature at the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
.
He worked for several publishing houses and cultural institutions.
Since 1974 he taught at the universities of Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
, then Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, where in 1993 he founded the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, and worked as its head till 1999, when he retired.
In 2007 he received the Golden Cross of Merit of Hungary.
Babić is also an honorary citizen of Balatonfüred
Balatonfüred
Balatonfüred is a popular resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary, with a population of thirteen thousand, situated on the north shore of the Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake shore and has significant yachting life. It is also a favorite location for coarse...
.
His first translation was a novel of Tibor Cseres: Hideg napok.
It was an important gesture of reconciliation between Serbs and Hungarians, because Cseres's book recalls the killings in Bačka
1944-1945 Killings in Backa
The Communist purges in Serbia in 1944–1945 were purges committed by members of the Yugoslav Partisan Movement and post-war communist authorities after they gained control over Serbia in 1944. Most of these purges were committed from October, 1944 to May, 1945. During this time, several tens of...
committed by Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
's Partisans
Partisans (Yugoslavia)
The Yugoslav Partisans, or simply the Partisans were a Communist-led World War II anti-fascist resistance movement in Yugoslavia...
against Hungarian civilians.
Babić translated also the works of Sándor Petőfi
Sándor Petofi
Sándor Petőfi , was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered as Hungary's national poet and he was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848...
, István Örkény
István Örkény
István Örkény was a Hungarian writer. A typical feature of his plays and novels is satiric view and creation of grotesque situations.- Life :...
, Miklós Hubay, Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés was a Hungarian poet and novelist. He was one of the so called népi writers, named so because they aimed to show – propelled by strong sociological interest and left-wing convictions – the disadvantageous conditions of their native land.-Early life:He was born...
, Tibor Déry
Tibor Dery
Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer. In his early years he was a supporter of communism, but after being excluded from the ranks of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1953 he started writing satire on the communist regime in Hungary.Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human...
, Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy was a Hungarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Gyula Krúdy was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a maid working for the Krúdy family. His parents did not marry until Gyula was 17 years old.In his teens, Krúdy published newspaper pieces and began...
, István Eörsi, Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres was a Hungarian poet and author.Born in Szombathely, Weöres was brought up in the nearby village of Csönge. His first poems appeared when he was nineteen, being published in the influential journal Nyugat through the acceptance of its editor, the poet Mihály Babits...
, Ádám Bodor
Ádám Bodor
Ádám Bodor is an award-winning Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.- Life and writing :...
, Lajos Szabó, Ottó Tolnai and Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy
Péter Esterházy is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature....
.
He also translated all books of Béla Hamvas
Béla Hamvas
Béla Hamvas was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic. He was the first thinker to introduce the Traditionalist School of René Guénon to Hungary.-Biography:...
. Some works of Hamvas were published in Serbian language before the Hungarian edition.
Babić recently translated some works of Imre Madách
Imre Madách
Imre Madách de Sztregova et de Kelecsény was a Hungarian writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man . It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust...
and Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai was a Hungarian writer and journalist.-Biography:...
, but these translations have not been published yet.
His works
- Na dlanu, Osvit, Subotica, 1971.
- Neuspeo pokušaj de se tarabe obore, Stražilovo, Novi Sad, 1978.
- U senci knjige, Stražilovo, Novi Sad, 1981.
- Kako smo prevodili Petefija, Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, 1985.
- Razabrati u pletivu, Novi Sad, 1986.
- Preveseji, Institut za južnoslovenske jezike, Novi Sad, 1989.
- Ljubavni jadi mladog filozofa Đerđa Lukača, Tvoračka radionica, Beograd, 1990.
- Pet više pet, Dnevnik, Novi Sad, 1990.
- Mađarska Civilizacija, Centar za geopoetiku, Beograd, 1996.
- Bokorje Danila Kiša, Umetnička Radionica, Kanjiža, 1998.
- Granice isčezavarju, zar ne?, Slobodan Mašić, Beograd, 1999.
- Hamvas hárs, Művészetek háza, Veszprém, 1999.
- Milorad Pavić mora pričati priče, Beograd, 1999.
- Milorad Pavić mora pričati priče, Stylos, Novi Sad, 2000.
Translations
- Bán Imre, Barta János, Czine Mihály: A magyar irodalom története (1976)
- Bodor Ádám: Sinistra-körzet (2000)
- Csáth Géza: Novellák és napló (1991)
- Cseres Tibor: Hideg napok (1966)
- Déry Tibor: Szerelem (1979)
- Déry Tibor: Kedves bópeer! (1989)
- Déry Tibor: Félfülű (1991)
- Eörsi István: Fogadás (1986)
- Eörsi István: Kihallgatás (1987)
- Eörsi István: Keringő a valósággal (1989)
- Eörsi István: Emlékezés a régi szép időkre (1990)
- Esterházy Péter: Hrabal könyve
- Esterházy Péter: A halacska csodálatos élete (2002)
- Esterházy Péter: Harmonia Celestis (2003)
- Fehér Kálmán: Januári borostyán (1974)
- Fehér Kálmán: Pannónia (1984)
- Gál László: Mégis (1974)
- Göncz Árpád: Elbeszélések és drámák (1992)
- Hamvas Béla: Hyperion (1993)
- Hamvas Béla: Scientia sacra I. (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Patmosz I-III (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Gond az életről (Babérligetkönyv, Világválság, Száz könyv, A bor filozófiája, Titkos jegyzőkönyv, Unicornis) (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Silentium (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Ugyanis (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Haxakümenion (1994)
- Hamvas Béla: Mágia szutra (1995)
- Hamvas Béla: Arkhai (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Óda a XX. századhoz (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Tabula smaragdina (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: A láthatatlan történet (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Regényelméleti fragmentum (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Az öt géniusz (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Szilveszter (1996)
- Hamvas Béla: Szarepta (1999)
- Hamvas Béla: Scientia sacra I-II (1999)
- Hamvas Béla: Karnevál I-III (1999)
- Hamvas Béla: Karnevál IV-VIII (2000)
- Hamvas Béla: A bor filozófiája (2000)
- Hamvas Béla: Bizonyos tekintetben (2000)
- Hamvas Béla: Ugyanis (2000)
- Hamvas Béla: Szilveszter (2000)
- Hamvas Béla: Anthologia humana (2001)
- Hamvas Béla: Reči i damari (Válogatás Hamvas bölcseletéből) (2002)
- Heller Ágnes: Szilveszteri symposion (1986)
- Hubay Miklós: Analízis (1975)
- Illyés Gyula: Ditirambus a nőkhöz (1975)
- Illyés Gyula: Kháron ladikján (1988)
- Kopeczky László: A ház (1971)
- Kosztolányi Dezső: Esti Kornél (1999)
- Lukács György: A modern dráma fejlődésének története (1978)
- Lukács György: Ifjúkori művek (1982)
- Lukács György: Intim dráma (1985)
- Lukács György-Eörsi István: Életrajz magnószalagon (1986)
- Majtényi Mihály: A száműzött (1975)
- Majtényi Mihály: Élő víz (1975)
- Oravecz Imre: Halászóember (2000)
- Örkény István: Macskajáték (1973)
- Pap József: Sebzett szárny (1975)
- Popper Leó: Esszék és kritikák (1989)
- Róheim Géza: Csurunga népe (1994)
- Sáfrány Imre: Menetelés (1971)
- Sánta Ferenc: Ötödik pecsét (1988)
- Szabó Lajos: Theocentrikus logika (1999)
- Szeli István: Székács József és műve (1986)
- Tolnai Ottó: Versek (1990)
- Weöres Sándor: A teljesség felé (2000)
- Szerelem magyar módra (Magyar elbeszélések, 1998)
- Az ember, az asszony és a bűn (Magyar írók biblikus írásai, 2000)