Janko Veselinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Веселиновић, pronounced [ˌjâːŋko ʋeseˈlǐːnoʋit͜ɕ]; 13 May 1862 – 26 June 1905) was a Serbian writer and novelist.
Janko Veselinović Јанко Веселиновић | |
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| Born | 13 May 1862 Salaš Crnobarski, Principality of Serbia |
| Died | 26 June 1905 (aged 43) Glogovac, Bogatić, Kingdom of Serbia |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, dramatist |
| Literary movement | Literary realism |
Biography
editJanko Veselinović was born in Salaš Crnobarski on 1 May 1862 to a Serbian Orthodox family.[1] He completed elementary school in Šabac in 1878 and enrolled into teacher's college in Belgrade from which he dropped out.[2] He worked as a teacher between 1880 and 1882 as well as between 1886 and 1889.[2] From 1893 he worked as an assistant for the Srpske novine newspaper editor.[2] As an enemy of the regime he lost his job in 1899–1900 and he was arrested on three separate occasions, in 1888, 1899 and 1903.[2] He died on 19 June 1905.[2]
Works
edit- 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
edit- ^ name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon">Živojin Boškov (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 561.
- ^ a b c d e 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