Serbian novelist Milorad Pavic died recently at 80, the New York Times reported today. Pavic was a brilliant writer who pushed the boundaries of the book, most famously in his Dictionary of the Khazars, a fictional encyclopedia which anticipated many of the themes of hypertext fiction.

Pavic's work was a great source of personal inspiration to me. He was a great writer and a literary visionary.

Resources:
Khazars.com Pavic's web site
Pavic's Wikipedia entry