Srba Mitrović

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Srba Mitrović (Serbian-Cyrillic: Срба Митровић; 23 December 1931 in Lalinac (Svrljig), Yugoslavia – 1 February 2007 in Belgrade) was a Serbian poet, translator and librarian.

Life and Work

Mitrović attended the

Serbo-Croatian language and literature at the care facility for children and adolescents (Prihvatilište za decu i omladinu), in which he taught young people who were victims of domestic violence, maltreatment, abuse and neglect from 1963–64, then he worked as librarian at the school library of Zemun Gymnasium until his retirement in 1985.[1][2][3][4][5]

In 1970, he began to publish his first poems, and numerous book editions of his poetry have been published over the course of the following years, additionally more than 400 publications in Serbian literary journals such as Letopis

Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin into Serbian, also Haiku poetry of Yosa Buson and Matsuo Bashō in co-operation with Hiroshi Yamasaki Vukelić (son of Branko Vukelić). Some of his poems are available in an anthology of Serbian poetry in English translation, compiled by Gojko Božović and edited by Serbian PEN in 2006. Tanja Kragujević commemorates his life and work in an essay on her Website, and recalls his significance for contemporary Serbian poetry.[6][7][8][9]

Bibliography (selection)

Awards

  • Milan Rakić Award 1991 for Šuma koja lebdi
  • Miloš N. Đurić Award 1993 for Antologija engleske poezije: 1945-1990
  • Branko Miljković Award 1996 for Snimci za panoramu
  • Isidora Sekulić Award 1996 for Snimci za panoramu
  • Zmaj Award 1999 for Uzmicanje
  • Award of the Association of Serbian Literary Translators for his complete work of translations 2001

References

  1. ^ Biography in: Leksikon pisaca Jugoslavije, Volume 4, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1997 (WBIS).
  2. ^ Biography in: Ko je ko u Srbiji, Bibliofon, Belgrade 1996 (WBIS).
  3. ^ Biography, Serbian Literary Society, retrieved 2019-04-30
  4. ^ Jugoelektro, official website, retrieved 2019-04-30.
  5. ^ Prihvatilište za decu, official website, retrieved 2019-04-30.
  6. ^ Lichtungen, No. 92/XXIII/2002, No. 100/XXV/2004.
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  8. ^ Srba Mitrović, official website of Tanja Kragujevać, retrieved 2019-04-30.
  9. Bookstore
    Knjižara Beograd, retrieved 2019-04-30.
  10. ^ Sonja Veselinović, Two Anthologies of Contemporary English Poetry in the Serbian Language, Academia.edu, retrieved 2019-04-30.
  11. ^ COBISS, union catalog COBISS of Serbian Libraries.