Miroljub Todorović

Miroljub Todorović
Born (1940-03-05)5 March 1940
Skoplje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Occupation Writer
poet
theoretician
editor
Language Serbian
Ethnicity Serb
Alma mater University of Belgrade
Genres Experimental novel, Short story, poetry, essays
Website
www.miroljubtodorovic.com

Miroljub Todorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирољуб Тодоровић, Skoplje, 5 March 1940) is a Serbian poet and artist.[1] He is the founder and theoretician of Signalism, an international avant-garde literary and artistic movement.[2] He is also editor-in-chief of the International review "Signal".

Biography

He was born March 5, 1940 in Skoplje. The war years he spent as a refugee with his mother (a teacher), and his sister in the areas around the Great Morava river, where he finished elementary school. In 1954 the whole family moved to Niš, where he finished high school.

He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1963. For a time he studied Public International Law at the third instance of the same faculty. A member of the editorial board of the student culture periodical “Vidici”, he participated in the student uprising of 1968. His poem "March of the Red University" was multiplied in thousands of copies and adopted by acclamation at the Student Union at the Faculty of Philosophy as the anthem of the University of Belgrade.

In 1969 he founded the neo-avantgarde literary and artistic movement Signalism, and the following year he launched the International Review “Signal” publishing most important avant-garde authors Raoul Hausmann, Augusto de Campos, Michele Perfetti, Adriano Spatola, Clemente Padin, Julien Blaine, Sarenco, Eugenio Miccini, Richard Kostelanetz, Guillermo Deisler, Bob Cobbing, Eugen Gomringer, Pierre Garnier, Enzo Minarelli, Keiichi Nakamura, Dick Higgins, Dmitry Bulatov, Sol LeWitt, Shozo Shimamoto, Klaus Peter Dencker, Ruggero Maggi, Daniel Daligand, Willi R. Melnikov, Kum-Nam Baik, On Kawara, Klaus Groh etc.

He worked as a journalist, a high school teacher, secretary of the editorial board, editor and advisor for Interstate and International Cultural Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. In 1982 he retired and fully devoted himself to literary and artistic work.

Poetry, essays, and intermedia works of Miroljub Todorović have been published in several languages: in anthologies, collections, catalogs, newspapers and magazines in Europe, North and South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

As an artist, he had a dozen solo exhibitions and participated in more than six hundred collective international exhibitions of drawings, collages, visual poetry, mail-art and conceptual art.

He is included in the biographical dictionary “Serbs Who Have Marked the Twentieth Century” (five hundred persons), Belgrade 2006.

On the work of Miroljub Todorović and Signalism movement that he had founded, three doctoral dissertations have been defended:[3] Dr. Julian Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, 1980; Dr. Živan Živković, Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, 1991 and Dr. Milivoje Pavlović, University of Kosovska Mitrovica, 2002. Twenty monographs have also been published on the same subject.

In the holdings of the Library of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences there is a "Special Miroljub Todorović library",[4] and in the Historical Archives of Belgrade there is a Legacy “Miroljub Todorović”.[5]

Awards and recognitions

Works

Poetry books

Prose books

Essays and polemics

Books for children

Book-works

Anthologies (editor)

Solo exhibitions

Some works in English

References

  1. ↑ Miroljub Todorović: Bio-bibliography, Signalism @ Project Rastko, e-library
  2. ↑ "Signalism in lexicons" (entries from Yugoslav editions, in English), Signalism @ Project Rastko
  3. ↑ "Three dissertations about Signalism" (Biserka Rajčić: 'Kornhauser's study'; Dragoljub P. Đurić: 'Dissertation on Signalism'; Radovan Vučković: 'Radical disproval of tradition), Signalism @ Project Rastko
  4. ↑ Biblioteka SANU - Posebna biblioteka 19: Biblioteka Miroljuba Todorovića
  5. ↑ Historical archives of Belgrade - Legacy of Miroljub Todorović
  6. ↑ Popadić, A. "Enciklopedija kulture", Večernje novosti (daily), Belgrade, April 12, 2012
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