Milo Dor was born in to a Serbian family in
Budapest, as Milutin Doroslovac. His father was a
surgeon, his mother lead a beauty salon. Dor grew up in the
Banat and later in
Belgrade. In highschool, he was a member of the Communist Youth and wrote lyrics. Having organised a school strike in 1940, he was expelled. Nevertheless, he passed his final exams in the following year. He participated in the resistance movement against the German occupants. In 1942, he was arrested; stays in prison and camps followed until he was deported to Vienna in 1943. A year later, he was arrested again and put into "
protective custody" (a euphemism used by the
Nazis for the rounding-up of political opponents). After
World War II, Dor stayed in
Austria, studying
drama and
Romance languages at the
University of Vienna until 1949 while working as a German writing journalist. From 1951, he was a member of the literary association
Group 47. He was also a member of the Austrian
PEN Club and president of the Austrian Writers Federation. Dor lived in Vienna and at times in
Rovinj with his second wife, with whom he had been married since 1955, until her death in 2002. His son is the Austrian film-maker
Milan Dor. Milo Dor died early on 5 December 2005 from heart failure in a hospital in Vienna and was interred in an honorary grave at the
Zentralfriedhof. ==Works ==