Branko Ćopić

Branko Ćopić was born on 1 January 1915 in Hašani, in the Bosnian Krajina. He received his first prizes in 1938 and 1939, joined the partisans during the Krajina uprising in 1941 and remained in their ranks until the end of the war. He then edited a children's magazine until 1949, and from 1951 lived by his pen, which was rare at the time. Winner of the NIN Prize in 1958 and a member of the Serbian Academy, he took his own life on 26 March 1984 by jumping from a bridge over the Sava in Belgrade.

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• Short storiesБашта сљезове бојеBranko Ćopić · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature