Stevan Sremac

Stevan Sremac was born in Senta, in Bačka, in 1855, into a family of craftsmen, and spent part of his childhood at his maternal grandmother's in Pirot. An orphan, he was brought to Belgrade in 1868 by his uncle, the historian Jovan Đorđević. He attended the lycée there and then studied history, enlisted as a volunteer in the wars of 1876 and 1877-1878 and joined the Liberal Party. A lycée teacher in Niš, Pirot and Belgrade, he did not begin to publish until he was thirty-three. He died in Sokobanja in 1906.

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• NovelПоп Ћира и поп СпираStevan Sremac · 1898not translated into EnglishLiterature