on July 1, 1996, following a heart attack. He was 53 years old. Honors and awards In 1973, Tesich won the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Playwright for the play Baba Goya, which is also known under the title Nourish the Beast. Tesich won the following awards for the Breaking Away screenplay in 1979, whose original working title was Bambino: Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award, Best-Written Comedy Written Directly for the Screen Screenwriter of the Year, ALFS Award from the London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1981 He also received a nomination in 1980 for a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay-Motion Picture. In 2005, the Ministry of Religion and Diaspora established the annual Stojan—Steve Tešić Award, to be awarded to the writers of Serbian origin that write in other languages. Screenplays Film Breaking Away (1979) Eyewitness (1981) Four Friends (1981) The World According to Garp (1982) American Flyers (1985) Eleni (1985) Television The Carpenters, play for television, 1973 Nourish the Beast, play for television, 1974 Apple Pie, television series, 1978 Breaking Away, television series, 1980-1981 Plays The Carpenters, 1970 Lake of the Woods, 1971 Nourish the Beast, also performed under the title Baba Goya, 1973 Gorky, 1975 Passing Game, 1977 Touching Bottom, 1978 Division Street, 1980 The Speed Of Darkness, 1989 Square One, 1990 The Road, 1990 Baptismal, 1990 On the Open Road, 1992 Arts & Leisure, 1996 Novels Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Price Karoo (1996, posthumously released 1998), paperback edition in 2004 with new introduction by E. L. Doctorow; German-language version entitled Abspann and a French-language version Karoo same as original. Collections Division Street & other plays. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981. 171 pages. Contents: Division Street -- Baba Goya -- Lake of the Woods -- Passing Game. References External links A Few Moments with Steve Tesich by Dejan Stojanović 1942 births 1996 deaths Yugoslav emigrants to the United States Writers from Indiana Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners Indiana University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century screenwriters