Okica Gluščević

Okica Gluščević (9 March 1856, in Polimlje, Herzegovina – 2 December 1898, in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia) was a Serbian journalist, writer and translator. He is best known for translating Lord Byron's Manfred, [1] Don Juan,[2] Leon Tolstoy's War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.[3] He was also the moving force behind the radical paper Odjek (Echo), founded in 1884 by his colleague Stojan Protić.[4]

Okica Gluščević
Born(1856-03-09)March 9, 1856
Polimlje, Herzegovina
DiedDecember 2, 1898(1898-12-02) (aged 42)
Belgrade, Serbia
Occupationtranslator, writer
LanguageSerbo-Croatian
NationalitySerbian

Career

He contributed to the New Belgrade publications Poklić and Odjek, as well as numerous literary journals such as Javor, Bosanska Vila, Čas, Gusle, Delo, Zora. Though he died before completing his major work — War and Peace — it was his long-time friend and colleague Milovan Glišić, who completed the final chapters of his work after the "Srpska knjizvna zadruga" (Serbian Literary Society) turned to Glišić for help.

He also translated (from Russian) the works of the following authors: Ivan Goncharov; Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin; Vsevolod Garshin; Taras Schevchenko; Vladimir Korolenko; Mikhail Lermontov; and French author Guy de Maupassant.[5]

In 1893 the Russian consul in Shkoder, Krilov, gave the first edition of Inok Sava Bukvar, printed in Venice on 20 May 1597, as a gift to Okica Gluščević, who was translating War and Peace at the time. Later, in 1903, Ljuba Stojadinović, who was organizing the Catalogue of the National Library of Serbia, entered the book as part of Serbian literacy.[6]

References
  1. Kabiljo-Šutić, Simha (16 December 1991). Bajron i bajronizam u Jugoslovenskim književnostima. In-t za književnost i umetnost. ISBN 9788670950160 – via Google Books.
  2. "Okica Gluščević – prevod". Knjizara.com.
  3. "Okica Gluscevic". www.goodreads.com.
  4. St. Protić, Milan (2015). Between Democracy and Populism: Political Ideas of the People's Radical Party in Serbia. Institute for Balkan Studies Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. p. 113. ISBN 978-86-7179-094-9.
  5. "Enciklopedija Stanoja Stanojevica" (PDF). University Library "Svetozar Markovic" Site Archive. p. 744.
  6. "ZA NJEGA NIJE ZNAO NI VUK KARADŽIĆ: Pogledajte prvi srpski bukvar star 420 godina! (FOTO)".
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