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Janko Veselinović

Died in 1905

Janko Veselinović was born in 1862 in Salaš Crnobarski, in the Mačva, the eldest of the nine children of a priest who later settled in Glogovac. A village schoolteacher from the age of eighteen, he moved to Belgrade in 1893, worked as a newspaper editor, including on the official gazette, founded the literary review Zvezda in 1894 and worked for the National Theatre as a dramatic adviser. He wrote chiefly stories of village life in his region. He died in Glogovac in 1905, and is buried there near the church.

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