| Ivan Ivanji | |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Veliki Bečkerek, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Death Place: | Weimar, Thuringia, Germany |
| Occupation: | Novelist, translator |
| Language: | Serbian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology |
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Ivan Ivanji (; 24 January 1929 – 9 May 2024) was a Serbian author of many internationally renowned novels.
Ivanji was held in Auschwitz and Buchenwald during 1944 and 1945. He was Secretary General of the Yugoslav Writers' Union from 1982 to 1988. His last book was a fictionalized account of his pre-World War II experiences in the town of Zrenjanin (Betschkerek) in the Banat. He translated his own works from Serbian into German. Born in 1929 in Zrenjanin, Serbia he lived in Vienna and Belgrade.
In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[1]
In April 2020, he was appointed honorary citizen of Weimar.[2]
Ivanji died in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany on 9 May 2024, at the age of 95.[3]