Miroljub Todorović

He was born March 5, 1940, in Skoplje. The war years he spent as a refugee with his mother (a teacher), and his sister in the areas around the Great Morava river, where he finished elementary school. In 1954 the whole family moved to Niš, where he finished high school.

He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1963. For a time he studied Public International Law at the third instance of the same faculty. A member of the editorial board of the student culture periodical “Vidici”, he participated in the student uprising of 1968. His poem "March of the Red University" was multiplied in thousands of copies and adopted by acclamation at the Student Union at the Faculty of Philosophy as the anthem of the University of Belgrade.

In 1969 he founded the neo-avantgarde literary and artistic movement Signalism, and the following year he launched the International Review “Signal” publishing most important avant-garde authors Raoul Hausmann, Augusto de Campos, Michele Perfetti, Adriano Spatola, Clemente Padin, Julien Blaine, Sarenco, Eugenio Miccini, Richard Kostelanetz, Guillermo Deisler, Bob Cobbing, Eugen Gomringer, Pierre Garnier, Enzo Minarelli, Keiichi Nakamura, Dick Higgins, Dmitry Bulatov, Sol LeWitt, Shozo Shimamoto, Klaus Peter Dencker, Ruggero Maggi, Daniel Daligand, Willi R. Melnikov, Kum-Nam Baik, On Kawara, Klaus Groh etc.

He worked as a journalist, a high school teacher, secretary of the editorial board, editor and advisor for Interstate and International Cultural Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. In 1982 he retired and fully devoted himself to literary and artistic work.

Poetry, essays, and intermedia works of Miroljub Todorović have been published in several languages: in anthologies, collections, catalogs, newspapers and magazines in Europe, North and South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

As an artist, he had a dozen solo exhibitions and participated in more than six hundred collective international exhibitions of drawings, collages, visual poetry, mail-art and conceptual art.

He is included in the biographical dictionary “Serbs Who Have Marked the Twentieth Century” (five hundred persons), Belgrade 2006.

On the work of Miroljub Todorović and Signalism movement that he had founded, three doctoral dissertations have been defended:[3] Dr. Julian Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, 1980; Dr. Živan Živković, Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, 1991 and Dr. Milivoje Pavlović, University of Kosovska Mitrovica, 2002. Twenty monographs have also been published on the same subject.

In the holdings of the Library of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences there is a "Special Miroljub Todorović library",[4] and in the Historical Archives of Belgrade there is a Legacy “Miroljub Todorović”.[5]

• 1995: "Pavle Marković Adamov" for poetry and life work
• 1998: "Oskar Davičo" for best book published in (Star's Trowel)
• 1999: "Todor Manojlović" for modern artist's sensibility
• 2005: "Vuk Award" for exceptional contribution in Serbian cultural space
• 2007: “Vuk Legacy“ Award for art, for poetry book “Blue Wind”,
• 2008: “Golden Letter“ Award for book ‘Slang Stories“
• 2010: “Krleža Award” for life work
• 2010: Diploma for life work of Writers Association of Serbia,
• 2011: “Golden link” by Cultural-educational community of Belgrade, for perpetual contribution to the capital's culture[6]

• Official site of the author
• Signalism @ Project Rastko, e-library
• Official blog of the author