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Isidora Sekulić

Died in 1958

Isidora Sekulić was born in 1877 in Mošorin, in Bačka. She read seven languages and came into literature through translation, chiefly from English and the Scandinavian languages, before turning to the essay and the short story. Married in Norway to a doctor of Polish origin, Emil Stremnicki, she soon lost her husband and did not remarry. The first woman member of the Serbian Academy, president of the Union of Writers of Serbia and honorary president of the Serbian PEN, she died in Belgrade in 1958.

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