A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Vladimir Pištalo

Vladimir Pištalo (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Пиштало) (born 1960 in Sarajevo) is a Serbian writer, most notably winning the 2008 NIN Prize for the year's best novel - Tesla, Portrait among Masks.

Vladimir Pištalo graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and earned his doctorate at the University of New Hampshire under the theme of the identity of numerous Serbian immigrants. He now works at Becker College in Brewster, Massachusetts where he teaches World and US history.

He published the following prose books:

Slikovnica (1981)
Noći (1986)
Manifesti (1986)
Kraj veka (1990)
A Novel: Corto Maltese (1987)

Short story books:

Vitraž u sećanju (1994)
Priče iz celog sveta (1997)
A biography of Alexander the Great (1999)

Novels:

Milenijum u Beogradu (2000)
O čudu (2002)
Tesla, portret medju maskama (Tesla, Portrait among Masks) (2008)
Venecija (Venice) (2011)

The French language translation of his novel Milenijum u Beogradu was a choice for the prestigious award Femina for the best translated novel in French.


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Slobodan Paessler

Slobodan Paessler, D.V.M., Ph.D.

PRESENT POSITION AND ADDRESS:

  • Professor with tenure, Department of Pathology
  • Director, Galveston National Laboratory Preclinical Studies Core
  • Scientific Director, ABSL-3 Facilities
  • University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
  • 301 University Boulevard, 5.200P GNL
  • Galveston, TX 77555-0609
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