Vladislav Petković Dis

Vladislav Petković was born in 1880 in Zablaće, near Čačak, and signed himself Dis, the middle syllable of his first name. After his father's death and the ruin of his family, he finished secondary school in Zaječar but twice failed the baccalaureate. A temporary schoolteacher near Zaječar, then a clerk at the Belgrade octroi, he afterwards lived on proofreading and contributions to newspapers. A war correspondent in 1912, in 1915 he followed the retreat through Albania to Corfu, then made his way to France. He perished in the Ionian Sea in May 1917, when his ship was torpedoed.

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• PoetryУтопљене душеVladislav Petković Dis · 1911not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain