Steve Tesich

Steve Tesich (September 29, 1942 - July 1, 1996) was a Serbian-American Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist.

Tesich was born as Stojan Tešić (Serbian: Стојан Тешић) in Užice, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), but immigrated to the USA with his family when he was 14 years old.

His family settled in East Chicago, Indiana, and Tesich later graduated from Indiana University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He went on to do graduate work at Columbia University, where he also wrote his first plays.

After achieving some critical and box office success writing for both stage and screen he died following a heart attack at the age of 53 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 2005, Serbian Ministry for diaspora established the annual "Stojan - Steve Tešić award", to be awarded to the writers of Serbian origin that write in other languages.

Screenplays:
*"Breaking Away" (1979)
*"Eyewitness" (1981)
*"Four Friends" (1981)
*"The World According to Garp" (1982)
*"American Flyers" (1985)
*"Eleni" (1985)

Plays:
*"Nourish The Beast"
*"The Carpenters"
*"Division Street"
*"Square One"
*"On the Open Road"
*"Arts and Leisure"
*"The Speed Of Darkness"

Novels:
*"Summer Crossing" (1982)
*"Karoo" (1996, posthumously released 1998)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856270/ Steve Tesich] at The Internet Movie Database