Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja

Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja
Portrait of poet Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja
Born	(1828-07-06)6 July 1828 Bukovac, Petrovaradin, Austrian Empire
Died	25 July 1878(1878-07-25) (aged 50)[1] Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
Occupation	Poet

Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Стојадиновић Српкиња, pronounced [mîlitsa stɔjadǐːnɔv̞itɕ sr̩̂pkiɲa]) (1828–1878) was a Serbian poet, sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".

Career

As her fame spread beyond the confines of

Her work, though, has been mostly out of the public eye and almost forgotten except by literary experts for most of the 20th century, first during

After Josip Broz Tito's death the awareness of her work was revived, and in the last quarter of a century a four-day poetry memorial is convened annually in Novi Sad in her honour, where a poetry prize bearing her name is awarded to prominent poets from Serbia.

Biljana Dojčinović has written on the role of Stojadinović-Srpkinja in the development of women's writing in Serbia, through a feminist framework.^[2]

See also

• Eustahija Arsić
• Ana Marija Marović
• Princess Anka Obrenović
• Staka Skenderova
• Draga Dejanović

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