Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja

Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja
File:Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja.pdf Portrait of poet Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja
Born	(1828-07-06)6 July 1828 Bukovac, Petrovaradin, Austrian Empire
Died	Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
Occupation	Poet

Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Стојадиновић Српкиња, pronounced [mîlitsa stɔjadǐːnɔv̞itɕ sr̩̂pkiɲa]) (1828–1878) was a Serbian poet, sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".

Career

As her fame spread beyond the confines of Serbian culture of the Austrian Empire, Prince Mihailo Obrenović would invite her to court when she came to Belgrade and Vienna-based anthropologist and poet Johann Gabriel Seidl devoted a poem to her.

She corresponded extensively with writers Đorđe Rajković (1825–1886), Ljubomir Nenadović, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić and his daughter Wilhelmine/Mina, Božena Němcová, and with Ludwig August von Frankl. In 1891 an almanach Die Dioskuren was issued in Vienna by Ludwig von Frankl with a collection of letters written by Milica Stojadinović.

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Bust of Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja in Vrdnik-Ravanica Monastery

Her work, though, has been mostly out of the public eye and almost forgotten except by literary experts for most of the 20th century, first during fin-de-siècle modernist poeticism as an outdated poetic form of pre-1870s, and later, under Communist rule as an unacceptable expression of patriotism for only one of the six nations of Yugoslavia (namely: Serbian).

After Josip Broz Tito's death the awareness of her work was revived, and in the last quarter of a century a four-day poetry memorial is convened annually in Novi Sad in her honour, where a poetry prize bearing her name is awarded to prominent poets from Serbia.

See also

• Eustahija Arsić
• Ana Marija Marović
• Princess Anka Obrenović
• Staka Skenderova
• Draga Dejanović

References

• Jovan Skerlić, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1914, 1921), p. 208. Her biography was translated from Skerlić's Serbian into English for this entry in the Wikipedia.