Name Dusan Kovacevic Children Lena Kovacevic Education Great School (1973) | Spouse Nada Kovacevic Role Playwright Books Bruin Sings the Blues | |
Born July 12, 1948 (age 75) ( 1948-07-12 ) Mrdenovac, FPR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) Occupation playwright and theatre director Movies The Balkan Spy, The Marathon Family, The Professional, Who\'s Singin\' Over Ther, Underground Similar People Danilo Stojkovic, Slobodan Sijan, Lena Kovacevic, Srdan Dragojevic, Bora Todorovic | ||
Ntv paket dus an kovac evic septembar 1992
Dušan Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Ковачевић, [dǔʃan kɔv̞ǎːtʃɛv̞itɕ]; born July 12, 1948) is a Serbian playwright and director best known for his theater plays and movie scripts. He also served as the ambassador of Serbia in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Biography
Kovačević was born in Mrđenovac near Šabac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia, graduated from a grammar school in Novi Sad, and received a Bachelor's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade in 1973. From 1973, he worked as a dramaturge at TV Beograd for five years. Since 1998, he has been the Artistic Director of Zvezdara teatar. In 2003 he directed his first movie, Profesionalac (The Professional).
His daughter Lena Kovačević is a famous jazz singer.
Kovačević's prolific work is well known and popular in Serbia. His comedies have been translated into 17 languages, but his work didn't become available in English until the mid-1990s. One of his plays, Balkan Spy was being rehearsed in Beijing at the time of Tiananmen Square protests, only to be cancelled by the authorities.
A declared royalist, Dušan Kovačević is a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karađorđević. He is also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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