ZIVKOVIC, Zoran

(1948-)

   Yugoslav sf publisher and researcher, based in Belgrade. He received his doctorate at Belgrade University in 1982; a version of his dissertation, "The Appearance of Science Fiction as a Genre of Artistic Prose", was published in his Savremenici buducnosti ("Contemporaries ofthe Future") (anth 1983) along with some of the stories he discusses. He has translated about 50 sf books and published more than 100 under his Polaris imprint, the first privately owned sf publishing house (founded1982) in YUGOSLAVIA. Zvezdani ekran ("The Starry Screen") (1984) is a book about sf cinema, based on the tv series of the same title which he wrote and hosted. His most ambitious work is the 2-vol Enciklopedija naucne fantastike ("Encyclopedia of Science Fiction") (1990). He wrote the YUGOSLAVIA entry in this volume.

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