Milorad PavićMilorad Pavić.

Milorad Pavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Павић, pronounced; 15 October 1929 to 30 November 2009) was a Serbian writer, university professor, translator, literary historian and academic. He published a number of poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." Pavić's works have been translated into more than thirty languages.