Djordje Kostić

Đorđe Kostić was born in Ruma in 1909 into a Serbian clerical family. In 1927 he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and then spent a short period in Paris. With Oskar Davico and Đorđe Jovanović, he published three volumes of the magazine "Trails." He gathered a group of like-minded friends, Oskar Davičo, Đorđe Jovanović, Aleksandar Vučo, Milan Dedinac, Mladen Dimitrijević, who are dubbed Surrealists by Marko Ristić. In the early 1930s, he was one of the 13 key artists who signed the manifesto in the Almanac Nemoguče-L'Impossible, where a series of Kostić's drawings and Tri puta san (Three Times a Dream) was published (pages 32, 57, 104), including works of other colleagues, albeit called Surrealists.[1]

In 1933 he was arrested for his revolutionary activity and imprisoned for a while. The following year, he decided to leave Belgrade and move to London for several years. There at the Mayfair, he attended the opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries from 11 June to 4 July 1936. That year he wrote a monodrama Dan bez noci (Day Without Night). In London, he co-authored with Dennis Butler Fry "A Serbo-Croat Phonetic Reader" in 1939.[2]

From 1944 until 1949 he was Foreign Program Editor at Radio Belgrade. He was appointed Research Director of the Institut za eksperimentalnu fonetiku (Institute for Experimental Phonetics) [3] in 1949 in Belgrade, [4]a position he held until 1978. While at the institute he travelled to India doing linguistic research there. He also published numerous papers on comparative linguistics. He wrote a book about his recollections on Surrealism titled Do nemogučeg (Up to the Impossible) in 1972,[5]and with Marko Ristić made a book of pastels and poems "Pass-T-Elle" (Calcutta). Four years later, he published a book U sredistu nadrealizma, Celjust dijalektike (At the Core of Surrealism, the Jaws of Dialectics) about the Surrealist survey from the Almanac Nemoguče-L'Impossible.

• Operativna gramatika srpskohrvatskog jezika (1987)[6]
• Rečenička melodija u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (1983)[7]
• Linguistic Habilitation for Hearing Impaired (1977)[7]
• A Short Outline of Telugu Phonetics (1977)[8]
• A Short Outline of Bengali Phonetics (1972)[9]
• Do nemogučeg (1972)[10]
• Bengali Speech Sounds for Hearing-Ilmapired Children (1976)[11]
• Under Your Sky (1972)[12]
• Opismenjavanja odraslih (1964)[13]
• Kvantitativni opis strukture srpskog jezika: srpski jezik od XII do XVIII veka - Domentijan[14]