guslar

a gusle player (a bard of the epic)

гусляр (сказитель эпоса под гусле)

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The Serbian cultural canonFolklore & customs

Next to it in the phrasebook

• Vȗk KàradžićVuk Karadžić (the language reformer and collector of folk songs)
• Vȗkova refòrmaVuk’s reform (built on ‘write as you speak’)
• ćirìlicathe Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabet (one of Serbian’s two)
• latìnicathe Latin script, Latin alphabet (Serbian’s other script)
• ÁndrićAndrić (Ivo Andrić, the writer; Nobel Prize in Literature 1961, naš…
• Na Drȉni ćùprijaThe Bridge on the Drina (Andrić’s best-known novel)
• nòbelovaca Nobel laureate
• PávićPavić (Milorad Pavić, the author of Dictionary of the Khazars)
• Hàzārskī rȇčnīkDictionary of the Khazars (Pavić’s novel in the form of a lexicon)
• KȉšKiš (Danilo Kiš, the author of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich)

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