Milutin Uskoković
Born4 June 1884
Užice, Serbia
Died15 October 1915(1915-10-15) (aged 31)
Kuršumlija, Serbia
OccupationWriter
NationalitySerbian
Alma materUniversity of Geneva

Milutin Uskoković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Ускоковић; 4 June 1884 – 15 October 1915) was a Serbian short story writer and soldier.[1]

Biography

Milutin Uskoković was born at Užice, Serbia, on 4 June 1884 and killed himself at Kuršumlija in southern Serbia on 15 October 1915 while witnessing the tragic retreat of the Serbian army.[2] His suicide note read: "I can no longer endure the destruction of my fatherland!"

He graduated from University of Geneva's Law School with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree[3] in 1910.

Like Veljko Miličević, Uskoković mixed fiction with journalism. He served as a war correspondent embedded with the Serbian army in the Balkans Wars and in World War I. To both journalism and fiction he brought an unusually rich and varied preparation.

As a novelist and short-story writer, Uskoković came to hold definite theories of the purpose and value of fiction, which he set forth in the essays collected after his death. He wrote, "Crtice" (1901) and poems in prose "Pod životom" (1905)[3] and "Vitae freagmenta" (1908).[3] His short stories "Kad ruže cvetaju" (1911) first appeared in magazines. Then two novels came, "Čedomir Ilić," published in 1914, and "Došljaci," published posthumously in 1919.

Works

  • Pod životom : crtice, pesme u prozi, pesme, članci o književnosti, 1905
  • Vitae fragmenta,1908
  • Došljaci, 1910
  • Kad ruže cvetaju, 1912
  • Les traites d Union douaniere en droit international, 1910
  • Čedomir Ilić, 1914
  • Dela, 1932
  • Usput, 1978

References

  1. ↑ Portalibris.rs (25 April 2019). "Milutin Uskoković: pisac beogradskog romana" (in Serbian). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  2. ↑ Boško Novaković (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia: Matica srpska. p. 554.
  3. 1 2 3 Relić, Ratko (October 2020). "Дошљак" [Newcomer]. Bijela pčela: list za svu djecu (in Serbian). Rijeka: Prosvjeta (260): 12–13.

Sources

  • Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914/1921) page 466
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Milutin Uskoković.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.