Vojislav Ilić

Vojislav Ilić was born in Belgrade in 1860, in 1862 according to other sources, the son of the poet Jovan Ilić. Sickly, he left the gymnasium after the third class. A volunteer in the war against Bulgaria in 1885, he was arrested and tried for a satire on a masked ball at which the king had appeared, then became a proofreader at the State Printing House. He gave up a diplomatic post in Salonica, taught in a Serbian school in Turnu Severin, then obtained in 1893, at his own request, that of vice-consul in Priština. Ill, he returned to Belgrade and died there in January 1894.

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• PoetryПесмеVojislav Ilić · 1887not translated into EnglishLiterature