Milo Lompar

Milo Lompar
Lompar in 2018
Native name	Мило Ломпар
Born	(1962-04-19) 19 April 1962 Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Literary historian, writer
Language	Serbian
Nationality	Serbian
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Period	Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and the Cultural History of the Serbs
Notable works	Moralistic Fragments The Spirit of Self-Denial
Notable awards	October Award of the City of Belgrade (1980) Award / Stražilovo (1983) Stanislav Vinaver Award (1995) Đorđe Jovanović Award (2000) Laza Kostić Award (2004) Nikola Milosevic Award (2009)

Milo Lompar (Serbian Cyrillic: Мило Ломпар; born 19 April 1962) is a Serbian literary historian, professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, writer, president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment and former director general of Politika.

Biography

Lompar was born in 1962 in Belgrade which at that time was part of Yugoslavia and is of paternal Montenegrin Serb descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Group for Yugoslav Literature and General Literature). He received his doctorate at the same faculty with a thesis on the historical, poetic and literary heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the late works of Miloš Crnjanski before a committee consisting of academician Nikola Milošević, prof. dr. Jovan Deretić and prof. dr. Novica Petković. At the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, he is a professor of Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and Cultural history of Serbs. He was the general director of Politika a.d. in the period 2005–2006.

Political involvement

As a non-partisan member of the Dveri Political Council, which he joined in 2015 along with Kosta Čavoški, Aleksandar Lipkovski, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Zoran Čvorović and other national conservative oriented intellectuals, he helped the Dveri and Democratic Party of Serbia political coalition win its MPs in the 2016 parliamentary elections. He left the Dveri Political Council in January 2018.

In April 2022, Lompar signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

Bibliography

Published essays and studies

• Historical, Poetic and Literary Heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the Late Works of Miloš Crnjanski, doctoral dissertation, 1993.
• About the end of the novel (The meaning of the end of the novel The Second Book of Migration by Miloš Crnjanski, Rad, Beograd, 1995. Drugo, izmenjeno izdanje: Drustvo za srpski jezik i književnost Srbije, Beograd, 2008.
• Modern Times in the Prose of Dragiša Vasić, Filip Višnjić, Belgrade, 1996.
• Njegoš and the Modern, Filip Višnjić, Belgrade, 1998. Second, corrected edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 2008
• Crnjanski and Mephistopheles (On the Hidden Figure of the Novel about London), Filip Visnjic, Belgrade, 2000. Second, edited edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 2007.
• Apollo's Signposts (Essays on Crnjanski), Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro, Belgrade, 2004.
• Book on Crnjanski, Serbian Literary Association, Belgrade, 2005.
• Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, Narodna knjiga, Belgrade, 2006 - With co-author Zorica Nestorović
• Moralistic Fragments, Narodna knjiga, Belgrade, 2007. Second, expanded edition, Nolit, Belgrade, 2009.
• Somewhere on the Border of Philosophy and Literature (On the literary hermeneutics of Nikola Milošević), Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2009.
• About the Tragic Poet (Njegoš's songs), Albatross plus, Belgrade, 2010.
• Njegoš's Poetry, Serbian Literary Association, Belgrade, 2010.
• The Spirit of Self-Denial, a contribution to the critique of Serbian culture, Orpheus, Novi Sad, 2011.
• Return to the Serbian Point of View, Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2013.
• Polyhistorical Research, Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2016.
• Praise for Modernity, Laguna, Belgrade, 2016.
• Freedom and Truth, Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2018.
• Crnjanski: Biography of One Feeling, Poslovna reč NS, Belgrade, 2018.
• Pseudo-Intellectual and National Politics, Catena Mundi, Belgrade, 2021

In 2018, the Serbian Literary Guild published a book of texts about the painter Petar Lubarda, titled Knjiga o Lubardi. The selection of texts was made by Professor Milo Lompar.