Milovan Glišić

Milovan Glišić was born in 1847 in Gradac, near Valjevo, to peasant parents, in a village that had no school. A pupil at the Belgrade gymnasium, he had to earn his living after his father's death, studied engineering and then philosophy at the Grande École and was imprisoned in 1872 for distributing a pamphlet by Svetozar Marković. A journalist, then librarian and deputy director of the National Library, he translated Gogol, Tolstoy and Goncharov, and was called the Serbian Gogol. He died in Dubrovnik in 1908, where he had come to treat his tuberculosis.

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• Short storiesГлава шећераMilovan Glišić · 1875not translated into EnglishLiterature