Aleksa Šantić

Aleksa Šantić was born in Mostar on 27 May 1868 into a family of Serbian merchants with little sympathy for his vocation, and spent almost his whole life in his native town. He presided over the Gusle singing society, founded in 1896 with Jovan Dučić and Atanasije Šola a literary review which he edited until 1901, and translated Heine, Schiller and the Czech Svatopluk Čech. Imprisoned during the First World War for his verses, elected in 1914 a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy, he died in Mostar on 2 February 1924.

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• PoetryPjesmeAleksa Šantić · 1908not translated into EnglishLiterature