Milo Lompar Explained

Milo Lompar
Native Name:Мило Ломпар
Native Name Lang:sr
Birth Date:19 April 1962
Birth Place:Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation:Literary historian, writer
Language:Serbian
Nationality:Serbian
Alma Mater:University of Belgrade
Period:Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and the Cultural History of the Serbs
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Notable Works:Moralistic Fragments
The Spirit of Self-Denial
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Awards:October Award of the City of Belgrade (1980)
Award / Stražilovo (1983)
Stanislav Vinaver Award (1995)
Đorđe Jovanović Award (2000)
Laza Kostić Award (2004)
Nikola Milosevic Award (2009)

Milo Lompar (; born 19 April 1962) is a Serbian literary historian, professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, writer, president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment and former director general of Politika.[1]

Biography

Lompar was born in 1962 in Belgrade which at that time was part of Yugoslavia and is of paternal Montenegrin Serb descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Group for Yugoslav Literature and General Literature). He received his doctorate at the same faculty with a thesis on the historical, poetic and literary heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the late works of Miloš Crnjanski before a committee consisting of academician Nikola Milošević, prof. dr. Jovan Deretić and prof. dr. Novica Petković. At the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, he is a professor of Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and Cultural history of Serbs. He was the general director of Politika a.d. in the period 2005–2006.[2]

Political involvement

As a non-partisan member of the Dveri Political Council, which he joined in 2015 along with Kosta Čavoški, Aleksandar Lipkovski, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Zoran Čvorović and other national conservative oriented intellectuals, he helped the Dveri and Democratic Party of Serbia political coalition win its MPs in the 2016 parliamentary elections. He left the Dveri Political Council in January 2018.[3]

In April 2022, Lompar signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.[4]

Bibliography

Published essays and studies[5]

In 2018, the Serbian Literary Guild published a book of texts about the painter Petar Lubarda, titled Knjiga o Lubardi. The selection of texts was made by Professor Milo Lompar.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-03-27. Проф. др Мило Ломпар: Обнова титоизма. 2020-11-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212909/http://www.geopolitika.rs/index.php/sr/intervju/387-prof-dr-milo-lompar-obnova-titoizma. 2018-03-27.
  2. Web site: DanasOnline. Piše. Milo Lompar novi predsednik Zadužbine Miloša Crnjanskog. 2020-11-29. Dnevni list Danas. sr-RS.
  3. Web site: Ne žele da budu fikus za saveze koji su "protivprirodna blud" - Politika - Dnevni list Danas. 2021-02-28. www.danas.rs. sr-RS.
  4. Web site: Peticija protiv uvođenja sankcija Rusiji. standard.rs. 2022-03-19.
  5. Web site: Milo Lompar Laguna. 2020-11-29. laguna.rs. sr.
  6. Book: KNJIGA O LUBARDI. en.