Vladimir Tasić

Vladimir Tasic was born in 1965 in Novi Sad. He obtained his BA in Mathematics in Novi Sad in 1988. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1992. Since 1995 he has been professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). He has published two volumes of short stories, Pseudologia Fantastica and Radost brodlomnika, and two novels: Oproštajni dar (The Farewell Gift) and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper). The Farewell Gift was voted book of the year for 2001 by the panel of Radio Belgrade 2. The volume of short stories Radost brodolomnika has been translated into English as Herbarium of Souls (1998). The Farewell Gift has been published in French, Slovakian, Macedonian and German. Rain and Paper received the NIN and Vital prizes for the novel of the year in 2004. It has been translated into French and Macedonian. Tasić’s monograph Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought was published in English and Spanish in 2001; it appeared in Serbian in 2002, while the Chinese edition appeared in 2005. He also published a book of essays, Njuškači jabuka (The Apple Sniffers) in 2004 and in 2008, the novel The Glass Wall.