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Biography & Bibliography
Biography
David Albahari (1948), a writer and translator from Serbia, has published nine collections of short stories and eleven novels in Serbian, including Leeches (novel, 2005) and Shadows (short stories, 2006).
His collection of short stories Description of Death won the Ivo Andrić award for the best book of short stories published in Yugoslavia in 1982. His novel Bait won the NIN award for the best novel published in Yugoslavia in 1996, as well as the Balcanica Award and Berlin Bridge Prize. His books have been translated into sixteen languages.
David Albahari has translated into Serbian many books by contemporary British, American, Australian and Canadian authors, including stories and novels by S.Bellow, I.B.Singer, T.Pynchon, M. Atwood, V.S.Naipaul and V.Nabokov. He has also translated plays by Sam Shepard, Sarah Kane, Caryl Churchill and Jason Sherman.
He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.
In 1994 he moved to Calgary, Canada, with his wife and two children. They still live there.
Bibliography
BRAT. (Brother) Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2008. (Novel)
SVAKE NOĆI U DRUGOM GRADU. (Every night in another city) Srpska književna zadruga, Beograd, 2008. (Stories)
DIJASPORA I DRUGE STVARI. (Diaspora and other things) Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad, 2008. (Essays)
EMA I JEŽ KOJI NESTAJE. (Ema and the Disappearing Hedgehog) Zepter, Beograd, 2008. (Book for children)
LUDVIG. Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2007. (Novel)
SENKE (Shadows). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2006. (Stories)
MARKE (Stamps). Zepter, Beograd, 2006. (Novel for teenagers)
PIJAVICE (Leeches). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2005. (Novel)
TERET (Burden). Forum pisaca, Beograd, 2004. (Essays)
DRUGI JEZIK (Second language). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2003. (Stories)
SVETSKI PUTNIK (Globetrotter). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2001. (Novel)
NAJLEPŠE PRIČE (The best stories). Prosveta, Beograd, 2001. (Stories)
NEOBIČNE PRIČE (Unusual stories). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1999. (Stories)
GEC I MAJER (Goetz and Meyer). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1998. (Novel)
PREPISIVANJE SVETA (Rewriting the world). KOV, Vršac, 1997. (Essays)
MRAK (Darkness). Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997. (Novel)
MAMAC (Bait). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1996. (Novel)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
SNEŽNI ČOVEK (Man of snow). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1995. (Novel)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
Rad, Beograd, 2000.
IZABRANE PRIČE (Selected stories). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1994.
KRATKA KNJIGA (Short book). Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 1993. (Novel)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
PELERINA (Cloak). KOS, Beograd, 1993. (Stories)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
CINK (Tsing). Filip Višnjić, Beograd, 1988. (Novel)
Dereta, Beograd, 1995.
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2004.
JEDNOSTAVNOST (Simplicity). Rad, Beograd, 1988. (Stories)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
FRAS U ŠUPI (Shock in the shed). Rad, Beograd, 1984. (Stories)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
OPIS SMRTI (Description of death). Rad, Beograd, 1982. (Stories)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
SKZ, Beograd, 2004.
SUDIJA DIMITRIJEVIĆ (Judge Dimitrijevic). Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1978. (Novel)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.
OBIČNE PRIČE (Ordinary stories). ICS, Beograd, 1978. (Stories)
PORODIČNO VREME (Family time). Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1973. (Stories)
Narodna knjiga, Beograd, 1997.