Literature 2023

Title::Literature
Date of Issue: 23.06.2023.
Author: Tanja Kuruzovic
Type edition: commemorative
Printing techniques: multicolour offset
Sheet: 9
Paper: muflep 100g
Printing House: Blicdruk, Sarajevo

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Motive: Desanka Maksimovic  
Catalogue no.: 934
Perforation: 13 3/4
Face value: 1.10 BAM
Quantity: 10 000

Мотив: Радоје Домановић  
Catalogue no.: 935
Perforation: 13 3/4
Face value: 1.10 BAM
Quantity: 10 000

Desanka Maksimovic was born at the end of the 19th century near Valjevo. Although she moved to Belgrade for her education, Valjevo and above all Brankovina remain her eternal inspiration. In the Balkans, everyone has encountered her verses at some point in their lives. During her seven-decade-long career, she published more than 50 books, among them collections of poems, prose for children and young people, collections of short stories, travelogues and novels. She also translated poetry from Russian, French, Slovenian and Bulgarian. However, she remains the most famous for her poetry. Her poetry is both loving and patriotic, energetic, youthful, serious and sensitive. Some of the most popular songs are: "Foreboding", "Premonition", "Spring Song", "Admonition", "On the Storm", "I'm Looking for Pardon", "Mowed Meadow", and the most famous patriotic song is "Bloody Fairy Tale", in which sang about the massacre of schoolchildren in Kragujevac at the beginning of World War II. Of all the values in life, she especially emphasized love, freedom, loyalty, courage, kindness and altruism through her songs. During her lifetime, Desanka was friend with many important poets and writers, with Ivo Andric, Milos Crnjanski, Isidora Sekulic, Branko Copic and Gustav Krklec...

Radoje Domanovic, the greatest Serbian satirist, was born in 1873 in the village of Ovsiste near Kragujevac. As a professor of the Serbian language and grammar, he worked in high schools in Vranje, Pirot and Leskovac. He did not know foreign languages, so he knew world classics from Serbian translations. Because of his political beliefs, he was constantly fired from his job, transferred from place to place and ended up as a proofreader at the state printing house. He belonged to the bohemian circle of Milovan Glisic and Janko Veselinovic. Deeply disappointed that little had changed after the fall of King Aleksandar Obrenovic's regime, he lived alone and abandoned. His remaining manuscripts, as well as paintings, were destroyed by the Austrians during the First World War. His most famous works are "Stradia", "Danga", "Leader", "Dead Sea", "Kraljevic Marko for the second time among the Serbs"...

Author: Tanja Kuruzovic

Publisher: Poste Srpske a.d. Banjaluka