Janko Veselinović (writer)

Janko Veselinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Веселиновић, pronounced [ˌjâːŋko ʋeseˈlǐːnoʋit͜ɕ]; 13 May 1862 – 26 June 1905) was a Serbian writer.

Janko Veselinović
Јанко Веселиновић
Born(1862-05-13)13 May 1862
Salaš Crnobarski, Principality of Serbia
Died26 June 1905(1905-06-26) (aged 43)
Glogovac, Bogatić, Kingdom of Serbia
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, dramatist
Literary movementLiterary realism
Janko Veselinović on a 2012 Serbian stamp

Biography

Janko Veselinović was born in Crnobarski Salaši on 1 May 1862 in Eastern Orthodox priestly family.[1] He completed elementary school in Šabac in 1878 and enrolled into teacher's college in Belgrade from which he dropped out.[1] Je worked as a teacher between 1880 and 1882 as well as between 1886 and 1889.[1] From 1893 he worked as an assistant for the Srpske novine newspaper editor.[1] As an enemy of the regime he lost ohis job in 1899-1900 and he was arrested on three separate occasions in 1888, 1899 and 1903).[1] He died on 19 June 1905.[1]

Works
  • Pastoral: Stories from Rural Life (Сељанка: приповетке из сеоског живота), novel 1888
  • Pictures of Rural Life (Слике из сеоског живота), story, 2 volumes, 1886–88
  • Wild Flowers (Пољско цвеће), story, 1890–1891
  • Paradise of the Soul (Рајске душе), story, 1893
  • Stari poznavitsi (Стари познавици), story, 1891–96
  • Hajduk Stanko (Хајдук Станко), novel, 1896
  • Fighters (Борци), stories
  • Letters from the Village (Писма са села), stories
  • Complete works (Целокупна дела) 9 volumes
  • The Flute Player, story
  • Poteru, play (in collaboration with Čiča Ilija Stanojević), 1895

References
  1. Živojin Boškov (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 561.
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  • The factual material for the Wikipedia biography of Janko Veselinović (writer) is adapted from the Serbian of Jovan Skerlić's Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / A History of New Serbian Literature (Belgrade 1914, 1921), pages 384–390.
  • Also, adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: Јанко Веселиновић
  • Gerda Baudisch: The patriarchal village in the narrative work of Janko M. Veselinović (Das patriarchale Dorf im Erzählwerk von Janko M. Veselinović), Munich, 1969
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