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DESANKA MAKSIMOVIC

Was a Serbian poet, professor of literature, and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Desanka Maksimović was born on May 16, 1898 in Rabrovica, near Valjevo.When she heard of German soldiers shooting primary school children in Kragujevac, she wrote "Krvava Bajka" (trans. "The Legend of Blood" or, more literally "A Bloody Fairy Tale"), a poem that speaks of the terror practiced by German army in World War II. The poem was not published until after the war had ended.
Her poetry spoke about love and patriotism; it was enthusiastic and youthful, yet serious and sensitive.
Desanka Maksimović died on February 11, 1993, in Belgrade, at the age of 95. She was buried in Brankovina, where she grew up.
After her death, the Desanka Maksimović Foundation was founded. This foundation organizes Desanka Maksimović award.

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ISIDORA SEKULIC

Was a famous Serbian prose writer, novelist, essayist, adventurer, polyglot and art critic.
She was born in Mosorin, Backa, in what is now the Serbian province of Vojvodina.Apart from her studies in literature, Sekulić was also well versed in natural sciences as well as philosophy. In her main novel, The Chronicle of a Small Town Cemetery she writes in oposition to the usual chronological development of events. Instead, each part of the book begins in the cemetery, eventually returing to the time of bustling life, with all its joys and tragedies. Characters such as Gospa Nola, are the first strong female characters in Serbian literature, painted in detail in all their courage, pride and determination.

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MILOS CRNJANSKI

Was a leading poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat. In his work, he achieved various successes and results. From his beginnings as a journalist whose social-political stance was at one moment openly opposed to freedom and progress, he gradually arose to become a poet and romanticist of greatest kind. This not only made him an interesting figure, but was also a turning-point in Serbian literary history.
Poetry:Lyrics of Ithaca (1918), Chosen verses (1954), Lament over Belgrade (1965)
Novels:The Journal of Carnojevic,Migrations,Second book of Migrations

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JOVAN JOVANOVIC ZMAJ

Is one of the best-known Serb poets.(November 24, 1833 - June 3, 1904)
was born in Sremska Kamenica.
He wrote in many of the genres of poetry, including love, lyric, patriotic, political, youth's, and educational poetry. But he is best known for his children's poetry.
The Zmaj Children Games, one of the biggest festivals for children in Serbia and the Novi Sad region, are named after Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

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VLADISLAV PETKOVIC DIS

Was a Serbian poet, part of the impressionism movement in European poetry. He was born in 1880 in Zablac, near Cacak in Serbia and died in 1917 (on a boat on the Ionian Sea. He introduced irrational and subconscious images into Serbian lyric poetry. One of his most famous poems is "Perhaps She Sleeps" ("MoZda spava"). During his lifetime he worked as a teacher and a war-front reporter during the Balkan Wars. During World War I he escaped to France. Near the end of World War I he traveled to Greece, but the ship he had boarded was intercepted by a German submarine and sunk. The manner in which he died earned him a reputation of a “cursed poet,” since one of his well-known poems is titled “The Drowned Souls” ("Utopljene duše").

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BRANKO COPIC

January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984
Was a Serbian writer.
Ćopić was born in the village of Hašani, Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina.His children's stories, novels, narratives, and poetry touched the lives of many. Undoubtedly, he was a cult writer to many growing up in Tito's Yugoslavia, and has been unjustifiably sidelined by literary historians since the country's break-up due to his decided and open commitment to the idea of Yugoslavism.
He lived in Belgrade most of his life.
His books have been translated into English, German, French, and Russian, and some of them have been turned into TV series and feature-films.

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LAZA KOSTIC

(1841–1909)
Was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, philosopher, polyglot, publicist, and politician, considered to be one of the greatest minds of Serbian literature.
Famous poem: Santa Maria della Salute

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BRANKO RADICEVIC

(born March 15, 1829, died June 18, 1853)
Was an influential Serbian poet in the school of 19th century romanticism. Radičević wrote his first poem book in 1847. He died of tuberculosis in Vienna.
Poems: In the Face of Death, Sadness and a reminder, The pupil's parting