title: Svetozar Koljević
text: # Svetozar Koljević
  
  Svetozar Koljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Кољевић; 9 September 1930 – 29 May 2016) was a Serbian author, historian, translator, and professor, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. He was the elder brother of Nikola Koljević. His studies focused on South Slavic epic poetry.
  
  ## Work
  
  * The Epic in the Making (Oxford, 1980),
  