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Vasko Popa

Died in 1991

Vasko Popa was born in 1922 in Grebenac, in the Banat, into a Romanian family. He studied in Belgrade, Bucharest and Vienna; a partisan during the war, he was interned in a German camp at Bečkerek. In 1949 he completed his studies in Romance languages and literature, worked as a journalist at Radio Belgrade and then as an editor at Nolit from 1954 to 1979, and compiled three anthologies of folk literature. A member of the Serbian Academy from 1972, he left an unfinished book and died in Belgrade in 1991.

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