Vukašin Filipović

He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo (ANUK) since its founding, and from 1986 to 1990 he was its president, in one term and president of the Council of Academies of Sciences and Arts of SFR Yugoslavia. He did not join Serbian, Montenegrin and Muslim writers and intellectuals in 1986 in protests against the Albanian irredentists.

He attended primary school in Babin Most, Bresje and Priština, and high school in the Second Men's Gymnasium in Belgrade and Priština, and graduated in Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1954. He received his doctorate at the same faculty in 1964 on the topic "Childhood in the work of Bora Stanković". He was a professor at the "Ivo Lola Ribar" Gymnasium in Priština (1954–1959), a lecturer at the Higher Pedagogical School and, from September 1960 until his death, a lecturer and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Priština in the subjects of Literary Theory and Modern Serbian Literature of the 20 century.

He is one of the founders and the first editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Vidici (1953–1954) in Belgrade. He is the initiator and editor-in-chief of the magazine Stremljenja (1965–1979) in Priština. As a student in Belgrade, he published about thirty stories with topics from Kosovo life in Mladi Borac, Mlada Kultura, NIN, Naši odjeku, and the newspaper Jedinstvo. His novel Tragovima ("Traces" in manuscript) was awarded at the "National Education" competition in Sarajevo in 1957 for a Yugoslav novel. The Provincial National Theater in Priština performed his plays: "Dark Rooms" (Albanian Drama, 1956) and "Snow and Fire" (Serbian Drama, 1963). He organized two solo exhibitions of paintings in 1957 and 1960. His exhibition was the first solo exhibition of paintings in Kosovo and Metohija. He also illustrated the collection of poems by Rado Nikolić "Shadows", and published numerous art contributions in Jedinstvo. He encouraged and helped young creators in Kosmet to affirm themselves. He was one of the initiators of the publishing activity of the newspaper Jedinstvo in 1961, in which he later published all his books.

Vukašin "Vuk" Filipović (Stanovc, near Vučitrn, Morava Banovina, Yugoslavia, 30 August 1930 – Priština, Kosovo, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1990) was a Serbian writer, painter and professor at the University of Priština. He is considered one of the most important Serbian 20th-century writers.