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NarrativeThe Life and Adventures of Dimitrije ObradovićЖивот и прикљученијаDositej Obradović · 1783The autobiography of a defrocked monk turned wandering schoolmaster, written to show his own people that their future lies in schools.Literature
PoetrySongs of the Serbian PeopleСрпске народне пјесмеVuk Stefanović Karadžić · 1814A collection of oral songs that served two causes at once: giving Serbian an orthography and a written literature, and providing a nation in the process of rising up with a past it could recite.Literature
PoetryПесме IBranko Radičević · 1847not translated into EnglishA collection of 1847 written in the speech of the villages, in the midst of the quarrel over the language in which the Serbs should write.Literature
PoetryЂулићиJovan Jovanović Zmaj · 1864not translated into EnglishIntimate poems written in the first happiness of a young marriage, published in 1864 under a Turkish title meaning little roses.Literature
TheatreMaksim CrnojevićМаксим ЦрнојевићLaza Kostić · 1866A tragedy of 1866 in which a father has sworn before a foreign prince something that illness has made false, and the son must pay for the oath.Literature
TheatreЈелисавета, кнегиња црногорскаĐura Jakšić · 1868not translated into EnglishA historical verse drama of 1868, about what a court makes of the foreign wife of the man who rules it.Literature
TheatreИзбирачицаKosta Trifković · 1873not translated into EnglishA comedy in three acts, drawn from the bourgeois life of Vojvodina in the 1870s.Literature
Short storiesГлава шећераMilovan Glišić · 1875not translated into EnglishA tale of 1875 about an honest ploughman caught between a village moneylender and a district official, in a countryside where money has just arrived.Literature
NovelВечити младожењаJakov Ignjatović · 1878not translated into EnglishA novel of 1878 about an eternal suitor and the decline of the Serbian middle class in Hungary.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesTo Matins with Father for the First TimeПрви пут с оцем на јутрењеLaza Lazarević · 1879A childhood memory of a son about a father feared by all, in the merchant Serbia of the nineteenth century.Literature
PoetryПесмеVojislav Ilić · 1887not translated into EnglishA collection in which feeling yields to drawing and confession to the picture, in Serbia in the 1880s.Literature
PoetryДахиреJovan Ilić · 1891not translated into EnglishA late collection of 1891, in which a poet from Belgrade takes up the form and language of Bosnian urban songs.Literature
NovelХајдук СтанкоJanko Veselinović · 1896not translated into EnglishHistorical novel of 1896 about the years when the peasants of Serbia took up arms, written to be read by everyone.Literature
NovelПоп Ћира и поп СпираStevan Sremac · 1898not translated into EnglishA comic novel of 1898 in which two households of country priests are enough to make a village war.Literature
Short storiesThe LeaderВођаRadoje Domanović · 1901A political satire of 1901 in which a whole people follows a man about whom it knows nothing, because he seems to know where he is going.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreЈазавац пред судомPetar Kočić · 1904not translated into EnglishA satire in dialogue from 1904 against the Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia, led by a peasant who feigns simplicity.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryПосмртне почастиSima Pandurović · 1908not translated into EnglishA collection of 1908 in which Serbian poetry looks at decay and death without trying to console.Literature
NovelПауциIvo Ćipiko · 1909not translated into EnglishA novel of 1909 about the usury that ruins the peasants of Austrian Dalmatia.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelImpure BloodНечиста крвBora Stanković · 1910A novel from 1910 about a town in southern Serbia at the moment when the Ottomans are leaving and money is changing hands.Literature
PoetryУтопљене душеVladislav Petković Dis · 1911not translated into EnglishA collection of 1911 that brings dream and the irrational into Serbian poetry, and that the critics of the time demolished.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryНове песмеMilan Rakić · 1912not translated into EnglishA collection of 1912 written on the spot by a consul of the Kingdom of Serbia in a land still Ottoman.Literature
NovelMigrationsСеобеMiloš Crnjanski · 1929A novel of 1929 about Serbian soldiers of Austria sent to fight without knowing why, and about those they leave behind.Literature
TheatreThe Cabinet Minister's WifeГоспођа министаркаBranislav Nušić · 1929A 1929 comedy about a housewife made insufferable by her husband's appointment to the government.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeГрадови и химереJovan Dučić · 1930not translated into EnglishTravel letters by a poet and diplomat, collected in a volume in 1930.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativePeople TalkЉуди говореRastko Petrović · 1931A short narrative of 1931 in which a traveller who has landed on an island in a lake does nothing but listen to the local people.Literature
Short storiesКроника паланачког гробљаIsidora Sekulić · 1940A story collection of 1940 in which the graves of a provincial cemetery give the dead back their lives.Literature
NovelПесмаOskar Davičo · 1952not translated into EnglishNovel of 1952 about the Communist underground in occupied Belgrade, written in monologues and jarring dialogues.Literature
PoetryПесма тишинеStevan Raičković · 1952not translated into EnglishA 1952 collection built on silence, at a time when young Serbian poetry was seeking brilliance and rupture.Literature
Poetry87 песамаMiodrag Pavlović · 1952not translated into EnglishA collection of 1952 that sets a dark, reflective voice against official lyricism, written by a very young man.Literature
PoetryBarkКораVasko Popa · 1953A 1953 collection that breaks with the poetry of socialist realism through short poems, without lyricism or confidences.Literature
NovelThe Wailing MountainЛелејска гораMihailo Lalić · 1957A 1957 novel about a partisan left alone in the mountain, facing the others and himself.Literature
NovelThe Red Cock Flies to HeavenЦрвени петао лети према небуMiodrag Bulatović · 1959A grotesque novel of 1959 in which a village wedding becomes the stage for every kind of misery.Literature
PoetryСвет у сунцокретуDobrica Erić · 1959not translated into EnglishThe first book, in 1959, of a man who had had only four years of schooling, and which opens a poetry of the Serbian countryside written from within.Literature
PoetryВатра и ништаBranko Miljković · 1960not translated into EnglishA collection of 1960 that gives back to Serbian verse the density that useful poetry had taken from it.Literature
PoetryТражим помиловањеDesanka Maksimović · 1964not translated into EnglishA collection of 1964 built as a plea in answer to a medieval code of laws.Literature
CinemaMarch on the DrinaМарш на ДринуŽika Mitrović · 1964A war film of 1964 drawn from the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of the Great War.Cinema
PoetryПлави чуперакMiroslav Antić · 1965not translated into EnglishA collection of 1965 through which generations of Serbian teenagers learned to name what was happening to them.Literature
CinemaWhen I Am Dead and GoneКад будем мртав и беоŽivojin Pavlović · 1967A 1967 film that shows the reverse side of the official Yugoslav narrative: a vagrant with no job and no future, followed without pity and without contempt.Cinema
CinemaI Even Met Happy GypsiesСкупљачи перјаAleksandar Petrović · 1967The first feature film shot in Romani, performed by Roma of Vojvodina in their own language and, for the most part, in their own roles.Cinema
CinemaEarly WorksРани радовиŽelimir Žilnik · 1969A film that takes the young Marx's philosophy at its word and looks at what remains of it when students of 1968 want to put it into practice.Cinema
Short storiesБашта сљезове бојеBranko Ćopić · 1970not translated into EnglishA 1970 collection of stories in which a writer returns, with humour and melancholy, to the village of his childhood.Literature
CinemaWR: Mysteries of the OrganismW.R. – Мистерије организмаDušan Makavejev · 1971A 1971 collage that puts sex and politics in the same frame and dismisses both Cold War blocs alike.Cinema
Short storiesA Tomb for Boris DavidovichГробница за Бориса ДавидовичаDanilo Kiš · 1976A 1976 collection of imaginary biographies of revolutionaries crushed by the machine they served.Literature
NovelThe Use of ManУпотреба човекаAleksandar Tišma · 1976A novel of 1976 about a group of schoolboys from Novi Sad whom the war scatters among the camps, the resistance and crime.Literature
CinemaThe Dog Who Loved TrainsПас који је волео возовеGoran Paskaljević · 19771977 film in which three lonely people travel part of the road together, each chasing a world he has invented for himself.Cinema
NovelAvala Is FallingПада АвалаBiljana Jovanović · 1978A first novel of 1978, in which Belgrade's youth recognised its own insolence.Literature
CinemaWho's Singin' Over There?Ко то тамо певаSlobodan Šijan · 19801980 comedy: a coach, a country road, and the eve of the day the war arrives.Cinema
CinemaVariola VeraВариола вераGoran Marković · 1982A 1982 film that reconstructs the last smallpox epidemic in Europe, which had arrived ten years earlier and was long passed over in silence.Cinema
CinemaBalkan ExpressБалкан експресBranko Baletić · 1983A comedy about the occupation that reverses the partisan film: people survive by their wits and sing a great deal.Cinema
PoetryThe Passionate MeasureСтрасна мераIvan V. Lalić · 1984A 1984 collection by a poet of memory and culture, in which song seeks to remain truth.Literature
NovelDictionary of the KhazarsХазарски речникMilorad Pavić · 1984A novel of 1984 in the form of a dictionary, leaving the reader to put it in order.Literature
CinemaBalkan SpyБалкански шпијунDušan Kovačević · 1984A satire of post-Tito Yugoslavia, in which a former political prisoner starts doing the police's work all by himself.Cinema
CinemaLife Is BeautifulЖивот је лепBoro Drašković · 1985A 1985 chamber piece set in a café beside a railway line, where stranded travellers tear one another apart.Cinema
CinemaWhen Father Was Away on BusinessОтац на службеном путуEmir Kusturica · 1985A film of 1985 in which the break between Tito and Stalin is seen from a family's kitchen, and told by a child who is lied to for his own good.Cinema