Desanka Maksimović

Desanka Maksimović was born in 1898 in Rabrovica, near Valjevo, and grew up in Brankovina, where her father was a schoolteacher. She studied in Belgrade and Paris, taught in Dubrovnik and then, from 1926 to 1941, at the first girls' secondary school in Belgrade. Under the occupation, confined to children's books, she secretly composed patriotic poems, including one on the massacre of the schoolchildren of Kragujevac. A member of the Serbian Academy, three times proposed for the Nobel, she died in Belgrade in 1993 and is buried in Brankovina.

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• PoetryТражим помиловањеDesanka Maksimović · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature