Sava Babić

Sava Babić (Cyrillic: Сaвa Бaбић, Palić, January 27, 1934–Beograd, November 23, 2012), was a Serbian writer, poet, translator and university professor.

In 1953, he passed the school-leaving exam and studied Yugoslav literature at the University of Belgrade.

Since 1974, he taught at the universities of Novi Sad, then Belgrade,[2] where in 1993, he founded the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature and worked as its head till 1999, when he retired.

It was an important gesture of reconciliation between Serbs and Hungarians because Cseres's book describes Hungarian war criminals reminiscing in judicial custody about their crimes and killings of the non-Hungarian population in 1942 raids in southern Bačka.

Babić also translated the works of Sándor Petőfi, István Örkény, Miklós Hubay, Gyula Illyés, Tibor Déry, Gyula Krúdy, István Eörsi, Sándor Weöres, Ádám Bodor, Lajos Szabó, Ottó Tolnai and Péter Esterházy.