Day of Serbian Satire on February 16

BELGRADE - The Days of Serbian Satire will be marked with several events organized by the Belgrade Aphoristic Circle (BAK), Association of Writers of Serbia (UKS) and Serbian Literary Society (SKD), and the central event will take place on February 16 on the date when great Serbian satirist Radoje Domanovic was born.

This will be the first time that the BAK will celebrate the Days of Serbian Satire together with the two Serbian association of writers, the UKS and SKD, and the program will start at noon when satirists Aleksandar Baljak, Vitomir Teofilovic, Aleksandar Cotric and Bojan Ljubenovic will visit the Radoje Domanovic primary school in New Belgrade and hold a lecture about the writer after whom the school was named and read aphorisms for children.

The BAK award for the best book of aphorisms in 2013 will go to Milan Todorov, who will receive the recognition in the UKS premises on Friday, February 14.

On the same day, Cotric will present an anthology of Serbian aphorisms for children and a book of funny stories for children to pupils in Pirot.

On February 16, the day of Radoje Domanovic's birth, a delegation comprising representatives of the BAK, UKS and SKD will lay flowers at the bust of Domanovic at Kalemegdan Park in Belgrade, and contemporary satirists will hold short speeches in honor of the man who authored unsurpassed satirical short stories.

In previous years, the Day of Serbian Satire, established in 1873, was marked by the BAK only, which gave the award for the best book of aphorisms.