His mother, Milica (nee Dragicevic), was a Montenegrin Serb who stayed at home and took care of Danilo and his sister, Danica. During World War II Eduard Kis was deported to a German concentration camp, where he later perished. Later in life Danilo Kis discovered that his father was once committed to the mental hospital in Kovin, before the war, for the treatment of alcoholism and anxiety neurosis. This fact was crucial for Kis's depiction of the father in the works from his "family cycle." During the war Milica Kis took the children to Hungary, where Danilo completed his elementary school education from 1941 to 1944.
After the war ended, the family moved to Cetinje, in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, where Kis attended grammar school until graduation in 1954. There he published his first short story, "Juda" (Judas), in Omladinski list (The Youth Newspaper) in 1953. After graduation Kis moved to Belgrade, where he entered the university in the newly opened department of comparative literature and completed his studies in 1958. He worked part-time at the Center for the Theory of Literature and Art in Belgrade after finishing his graduate work in 1960.
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