Milovan Glišić
Milovan Glišić (1847–1908) was a famous Serbian writer, dramatist, and literary theorist. He is sometimes considered to be the Serbian Gogol, due to the Ukrainian author's influence on his writing.
Glišić began his literary translations in satirical newspapers, and then moved to the original short story. His original work includes two theater pieces, "Two coins" and "Spoofing" and two collections of short stories. The collections are, among others, his popular humorous and satirical stories: "Sugar Head", "Roga", "Not about what", "Pricker for fire", "Walk after death," An ominous number"," Rare beast " ; also "After ninety years" and a lyrical sketch "The first furrow".
Glišić is the most worked on translations from Russian and French litera
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Domanović was born in a village Ovsište which is located in Topola municipality, Šumadija District. He attended a gymnasium in Kragujevac. Some of his teachers were Pera Đorđević and Sreten Stojković, followers of Svetozar Marković, who were arrested for an attempt to take control of the local government and displaying a red flag. From 1890 to 1894, Domanović studied at the history and philology department of Belgrade's Grande Ecole (what soon became the University of Belgrade). He read some of his first works to the members of a student organization Pobratimstvo (Bloodbrothers).
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He was born in Šabac, in a trader family, where he finished primary and lower high school. In 1865 he studied at the Belgrade Higher School and then Law in Belgrade. With help of the country he leaves to Berlin to study medicine. After he finished the studies he became specialist doctor of the General State Hospital in Belgrade. Since then to his death, Lazarević worked on organisation of Serbian medicine as a primarius. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society and SANU, doctor in 1876-1878 wars, major, organiser of the large reserve hospital in Niš during the Serbian-Bulgarian war (1885), vice-colonel, writer and -
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He was born in Trebinje in today's Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he attended primary school. He moved on to a high school in Mostar and trained to become a teacher in Sombor. He worked as a teacher in several towns before returning to Mostar, where he founded (with Aleksa Šantić) a literary magazine Zora ("Dawn").
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
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People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.
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Cats have nine lives. Shouldnt they be lived to the fullest?
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Рођен је у Сенти, у Бачкој, 11. новембра 1855. године, у занатлијској породици, где је провео рано детињство. Пошто је остао без родитеља, ујак Јован Ђорђевић, знаменити српски историчар, доводи га 1868. године у Београд на даље школовање. Ту завршава гимназију (1875) и опредељује се за студије историје на Великој школи у Београду и за припадност Либералној странци. Свој радни век провео је као професор у гимназијама у Нишу, Пироту и Београду. Као добровољац учествовао је у ратовима 1876. и 1877 — 1878. године. Умро је 12. августа 1906. године у Сокобањи.
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Почео је да пише релативно касно. У тридесет и трећој години живота, 1888. године, почео је да објављује прозне хронике о личностима и догађајима из српске прошлости, које ће се појавити ка -
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Radoje Domanović was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories.
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Domanović was born in a village Ovsište which is located in Topola municipality, Šumadija District. He attended a gymnasium in Kragujevac. Some of his teachers were Pera Đorđević and Sreten Stojković, followers of Svetozar Marković, who were arrested for an attempt to take control of the local government and displaying a red flag. From 1890 to 1894, Domanović studied at the history and philology department of Belgrade's Grande Ecole (what soon became the University of Belgrade). He read some of his first works to the members of a student organization Pobratimstvo (Bloodbrothers).
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Dragoslav Mihailović
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Laza K. Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Лаза К. Лазаревић, May 1, 1851-January 10, 1891) was Serbian writer and psychiatrist.
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He was born in Šabac, in a trader family, where he finished primary and lower high school. In 1865 he studied at the Belgrade Higher School and then Law in Belgrade. With help of the country he leaves to Berlin to study medicine. After he finished the studies he became specialist doctor of the General State Hospital in Belgrade. Since then to his death, Lazarević worked on organisation of Serbian medicine as a primarius. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society and SANU, doctor in 1876-1878 wars, major, organiser of the large reserve hospital in Niš during the Serbian-Bulgarian war (1885), vice-colonel, writer and -
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Miloš Crnjanski
Miloš Crnjanski (in Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Црњански, pronounced [mîlɔʃ t͡srɲǎnskiː]) was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat. He initially wrote poetry but later turned to prose fiction and drama, as well. He wrote about his disillusionment, the futility of war and the destruction of his country.
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Crnjanski was born in Csongrád, present day Hungary in 1893. His father was a municipal notary. The family moved to Temesvár (now Timisoara in Romania), where he grew up in a Serbian environment, favouring Serbian nationalism. After high school, he studied in Rijeka and then Vienna. After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, he was persecuted like other Serbs and then drafted into the army to fight the Rus -
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Jakov Ignjatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јаков Игњатовић;1822 –1889) was a multifaceted figure in both Serbian and Hungarian cultural and political life, known primarily as a novelist and prose writer. Born in Szentendre, a town with a rich Serbian heritage, Ignjatović’s early life set the stage for his later complex identity. He attended elementary school in Szentendre before continuing his studies at the Gymnasium in Vác, Esztergom, and Pest. Though he enrolled in Law School in Pest, his restless spirit led him to abandon his studies and join the hussars, embracing the Romantic ideals of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
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Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867