Milan Belegisanin was born in 1956 in Novi Sad, Serbia. He completed all requirements for a full course of studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Yugoslav literature, in 1978, and in 1980 he got his diploma at the Academy of Arts, Department of theatre, film and television direction, in Novi Sad. He worked as a director in the theatres of Novi Sad, Skopje, Prilep, Sarajevo...
His performances of significance:
- Tomas Man: Mario and the Magician
- Leonid Andreev: Judas of Iscariot (awarded in Sarajevo in 1981 for small and experimental stages)
- Berthold Brecht: Baal
- Marek Hlasko: The next for Paradise
- Oscar Wilde: Salome
- Slavomir Mrozek: A House at the Border (best performance and best direction of the 36the meeting of the theatres of Vojvodina, in Zrenjanin, 1986)
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Oscar Wilde: Happy Prince
- Eugene O'Neal: Long Day's Journey into the Night
- Danilo Kis: A tomb for Boris Davidovich
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He won many prizes and awards. On the March Festival of documentary and short meter film he was awarded several times:
- 39th Festival – documentary film SCREAM (gold medal for direction, best scenario)
- 40th Festival – documentary film WHISPERING OF LIFE (silver medal for direction, TV Novosti Artist- to- artist Award)
- 51st Festival - ALL GOJKO’S TREASURES (Grand gold medal for best documentary film longer than 30 minutes)
- 55th Festival – documentary film SWALLOW (gold medallion for best film and ‘Jovan Aćin’ award
- ‘Slavuj Hadžić’ award of Radio-television of Vojvodina for 2008
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He published five books of fiction:
- STONE IN WHEAT (legends of castles of Vojvodina), 1993
- NIGHT OF ST. NICHOLAS, 1994
- HORG, 1997
- THE WINGS, 1999.
- PETRIFIED PRAYERS, 2001 (the book was included in a wider circle for the novel of the year by NIN)
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Since the first editions were sold out, Horg, Wings and Night of St. Nicolas were reprinted.
During the previous year published trilogy under the title of STONE IN WHEAT contains:
- 1. The Dreams of Weedy Towers (legends of castles and citadels of Vojvodina)
- 2. Petrified Prayers (a novel about monasteries of Fruska Gora)
- 3. The Guardians of Springs (stories about miraculous waters of Srem)
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A new book of stories titled “Lina Shash” was published in the beginning of 2010.
For the last 18 months every Saturday at midnight on TV Novi Sad, Belegisanin had his own section of Good-night stories, at the closing of the program called “The taste of night”. He has been employed in the documentary educational program of TV Novi Sad for the last 20 years. He has never been a member of any of the political parties.
