Danilo Kiš
Danilo Kiš · Arts & Literature
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1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia — 1989, Paris, France
Yugoslavia (Serbia) · France
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Kiš was a Yugoslav (Serbian) writer, one of the major European novelists of the twentieth century, whose works such as 'A Tomb for Boris Davidovich' and 'Garden, Ashes' confront totalitarianism, memory and the fate of Central European Jewry. His father, a Hungarian Jew, was murdered in Auschwitz, and the Holocaust and Jewish identity are central themes of his fiction. Kiš was of Jewish descent through his father.
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