One of the greatest Serbian writers, Miloš Crnjanski (1893-1977), an exceptional stylist and poet, was born on October 26, 1893.
Crnjanski studied art history in Vienna, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
He worked as a professor and journalist, and from 1928 he was in the diplomatic service, in which he was found in Rome during the Second World War. From Rome, he later went to London via Lisbon, and returned to his homeland from emigration in 1965.
In the novel “Migration” (1929), as well as “The Second Book of Migration” (1962), Crnjanski succeeded in poeticizing a historical vision inspired by the tragic dispersion of the Serbs, without depriving it of its factual basis. Those works are a great historical fresco and a poem about wandering and pathlessness.
Other novels by Miloš Crnjanski are: “Diary of Čarnojević”, “A Drop of Spanish Blood”, “At the Hyperboreans” and “A Novel about London”.
His collection of poems “Lyrics of Ithaca” and the poem “Lament over Belgrade” are also famous.
Crnjanski wrote the novella “Priče o muškom”, the plays “Mask”, “Konak” and “Nikola Tesla”, as well as the travelogues “Love in Tuscany”, “The Book of Germany”, “Our Heavens”, “Our Beaches on the Adriatic”. and “Boka Kotorska”.
Upon his arrival in Belgrade, he published his last work, “Embassy”.
Miloš Crnjanski died on November 30, 1977 in Belgrade, and was buried in the Alley of Meritorious Citizens at Belgrade’s New Cemetery.
According to his will, the National Library of Serbia received the writer’s legacy in 1979.
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