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Negovan Rajić

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Négovan Rajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Негован Рајић; Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 24 June 1923;[1] - Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, 29 March 2021[2]) was a Serbian-born French Canadian[3]novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote in both French and Serbian.

Describing the Second World War and its aftermath, Rajić once wrote, "I belong to a generation that ended up abroad."[4]He was referring to the sudents, clerics, POW, soldiers who fled at the end of the war when the government of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia was usurped by the Yugoslav Communists and his generation sought sanctuary in the West after spending several years in DP camps in Europe.

Career[edit]

In 1944, he joined the resistance after completing his studies in engineering at University of Belgrade. He was posted in charge of communications by the Royal Yugoslavian underground army from 1944 to 1945. In early 1946 he was forced to flee the country clandestinely when Tito's Communists usurped the Royal Yugoslav government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and took over the entire country by force.[5] After spending a short period of time imprisoned in Allied concentration camps in Austria, Italy and Germany, he arrived in Paris, France in 1947 where he took post-graduate studies at the prestigious Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Afterward, he worked at two jobs, one as a freelance writer and broadcaster in charge of technical news at a radio station from 1951 to 1963, and the other as a research engineer at a Solid State Physics Laboratory from 1956 to 1963. He also taught electronics at a technical school in Strasbourg, from 1963 to 1969.

After immigrating to Canada, he arrived in 1969 in Quebec and became a professor of mathematics at Cégep de Trois-Rivières where he taught until retirement. He was a regular contributor to the Voice of Canadian Serbs, especially when Radoje Knežević was its editor.

He died at the medical clinic -- CIUSSS MCQ-Centre St-Joseph[6]-- in Trois-Rivières, on 29 March 2021, at the age of 97 years and 9 months. He was the husband of the late Mirjana Knežević Rajić. Rajić is survived by his son Nicolas Rajić and daughter Anna Rajić Brković and his grandchildren -- Alexia, Mathilde, and Thomas Brković.[7]

Works[edit]

  • Les Hommes-taupes (novel), 1978,[8] translated by D. Lobdell as "The Mole Men", 1980;[9]
  • Une histoire de chiens (1980)[10]
  • Propos d'un vieux radoteur[11](short story collection), 1982, translated by D. Lobdell as "The Master of Strappado", 1984;[12]
  • Sept Roses pour une boulangere: Recit, 1987,[13]translated by D. Lobdell as "Seven Roses for a Baker", 1988;
  • Service pénitentiaire national[14](short story collection), 1988, translated by D. Lobdell as "Shady Business";
  • Vers l'autre rive. Adieu Belgrade[15](To the Far Shore)[16]

He was a contributor to anthologies and wrote short stories and satires in Serbo-Croatian as Živko Vuletić, his nome de plume

Bibliography[edit]

  • Negovan Rajić: ka drugoj obali by Ljiljana Matić (1994);[17]
  • Negovan Rajić (dossier d'archives), 1994;[18]
  • Review of the Study Centre for Jugoslav Affairs, publisher: Study Centre for Jugoslav Affairs (1970), contributors include Negovan Rajić, page 738;[19]
  • Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia by Rusko Matulic (2014), page 293;[20]
  • Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher by Diana Johnstone (2020)[21]
  • The History of Serbia by John K. Cox (2002), page 219;[22]
  • Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Ketterer (1992), page 35;[23][24]
  • The South Slav Journal - Volume 28, Issues 1-2 - Page 139;[25]
  • Bibliografija francuskih dela prevedenih u Srbiji i Crnojgori - Page 147[26]
  • A History of Canadian Literature, page 457[27]
  • XYZ.La revue de la nouvelle, Number 13, Spring 1988, pages 3-80[28]
  • Serbs in Ontario: A Socio-cultural Description, editors Sofija Škorić and George Vid Tomashevich, Serbian Heritage Academy of Canada (1987), page 258[29]

Awards[edit]

  • In 1978 he received the Prix Esso[30]for "Les Hommes-taupes";
  • 1980, the Prix Air Canada for Une histoire de chiens ("A story of dogs");
  • 1984, the Slobodan Jovanović Prize from the London-based Association of Serbian Writers and Artists Abroad for Propos d'un vieux radoteur ("About an old rambler");
  • 1988, the Prix littéraire de Trois-Rivières also known as Gérald Godin award for Sept roses pour une boulangère ("Seven roses for a baker"); and
  • 2001, the Gérald Godin award for Vers l'autre rive. Adieu Belgrade ("Towards the other shore. Farewell Belgrade").
  • 2005, the Radoje Domanović Prize for Ljudi krtice (Mole People).


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  3. Morel, Pierre (2007). Parcours québécois: Introduction à la littérature du Québec. ISBN 978-9975-79-141-0. Search this book on
  4. Летопис Матице српске. У Српској народној задружној штампарији. 2009. Search this book on
  5. "Rajic Négovan".
  6. "GMF-U Trois-Rivières (Centre Saint-Joseph)". CIUSSS MCQ.
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  8. "Le Devoir".
  9. Rajic, Négovan (July 30, 1980). The Mole Men. Oberon Press. ISBN 978-0-88750-334-4 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  10. "Le Devoir".
  11. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=9399389
  12. Rajic, Négovan (July 30, 1984). The Master of Strappado. Oberon Press. ISBN 978-0-88750-551-5 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  13. "Le Devoir".
  14. file:///C:/Users/Michael/Downloads/194226-Document%20File-229200-1-10-20210225.pdf
  15. Rajic, Négovan (2000). Vers l'autre rive: Adieu Belgrade : Roman. ISBN 978-2-8251-1379-0. Search this book on
  16. Rajic, Négovan (July 30, 2006). To the Far Shore. Cormorant Books. ISBN 978-1-896951-82-9 – via Google Books. Search this book on
  17. Negovan Rajić: Ka drugoj obali. 1994. Search this book on
  18. Negovan Rajic (Dossier d'archives). 1994. Search this book on
  19. "Review of the Study Centre for Jugoslav Affairs". Study Centre for Jugoslav Affairs. 1970.
  20. Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III. Xlibris Corporation. April 2014. ISBN 978-1-4931-9078-2. Search this book on
  21. Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher. SCB Distributors. 15 January 2020. ISBN 978-1-949762-14-3. Search this book on
  22. The History of Serbia. Greenwood Publishing. 2002. ISBN 978-0-313-31290-8. Search this book on
  23. Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Indiana University Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-253-33122-9. Search this book on
  24. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=9399389
  25. The South Slav Journal. Dositey Obradovich Circle. 2008. Search this book on
  26. Bibliografija francuskih dela prevedenih u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori od 1987. Do 2003. Godine. Narodna biblioteka Srbije. 2004. ISBN 978-86-7035-105-9. Search this book on
  27. A History of Canadian Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 6 August 2003. ISBN 978-0-7735-7136-5. Search this book on
  28. "Spécial 13. Number 13, February–Spring 1988 – XYZ. La revue de la nouvelle".
  29. Serbs in Ontario: A Socio-cultural Description. Serbian Heritage Academy. 1987. ISBN 978-0-920069-06-6. Search this book on
  30. "Le Devoir".

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