Lalich, Mikhailo

Born into a peasant family. Orphaned early. After graduating from high school, since 1933 he studied law at the University of Belgrade. Since 1934, he began to publish essays, critical articles, stories and short stories in the Serbian press. In addition to law, journalism and literature, he became interested in politics - he began to attend meetings of the circle studying the work of Marx and Lenin . Since 1936 - Member of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia . Being one of the most active members of the communist movement, he was repeatedly arrested. Returning to freedom, the journalist and writer Lalich did not repent, but continued to cooperate with the socialist press. All these years (1934-1940) Lalich would later call "literary apprenticeship."

After the outbreak of World War II, he returned to Montenegro and joined the partisan movement. In 1942, having lost contact with his detachment, Lalich was captured by the Chetniks , who transferred him into the hands of the German Gestapo . After enduring all torture in the city prison of Kolasin and not betraying his comrades, the writer was exiled to serve his prison sentence in Thessaloniki, Greece. In Greece, Lalich managed to escape from custody and join the Greek People's Liberation Movement. After some time, the writer returns home again, continuing to fight against the invaders with weapons in their hands.

After the war, he collaborated with Serbian magazines and newspapers, then devoted himself completely to literature, moving from Montenegro to Belgrade. He lived and worked in Paris for some time, then returned to the Balkans, alternately living and working in Serbian Belgrade and Montenegrin Herceg Novi . He was elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1968 and a member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1973 . Member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (1986-1990).

M. Lalic is a central figure in the literature of Serbia and Montenegro in the 1950s and 1970s.

The author of works on the struggle of the Balkan peoples against fascism during the Second World War, glorifying the courage and heroism of the Montenegrins and Serbs. Lalich’s books are filled with the tragedy of the war years, they were written without pathos and heroism , but with a certain degree of doom and perception of those events for granted, for he himself went through such trials.

In 1946-1986, according to the scripts of Lalich, about 7 feature films and documentaries were quickly shot ^[1] .

For his work, Lalich repeatedly won literary prizes at home and abroad. His works, in addition to the languages ​​of the Yugoslav peoples, were also translated into other foreign languages ​​( Russian , Bulgarian , Polish , Czech , Slovak , Romanian , Lithuanian , English , German , Danish ), and in 1967 they accepted him as a member of the writer's membership in art and literature Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The author of twelve fiction novels, the most famous are:

• "Wedding",
• "Evil Spring"
• Leleyskaya Gora
• The gap
• Shreds of Darkness
• "Raid"
• short stories
  • "Intelligence service",
  • "Guests"
  • "Last height" and others.

• Order of the Hero of Socialist Labor
• Order of Brotherhood and Unity (1962)
• Order of Merit for the People (1974)
• Order of the Yugoslav flag with ribbon (1974)
• Order of Partisan memory
• NIN magazine award for the book "Ratna Sreћa" (1973)
• The first prize winner. Negosha (1963)
• Prize of the Anti-Fascist Party of the Liberation of Yugoslavia (1967)
• July 13 Award (1970 and 1974)

• Mihailo Lalić
• Mikhailo Lalich on imdb