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Srba Mitrović

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'''Srba Mitrović''' ([[Serbian Cyrillic alphabet|Serbian-Cyrillic]]: Срба Митровић; 23 December 1931, [[Lalinac (Svrljig)]], [[Yugoslavia]]) – 2 February 2007, Belgrade) was a [[Serbia|Serbian]] poet, translator and librarian.

==Life and Work==
Mitrović attended the [[primary school]] in [[Pirot]] and [[Niš]], and the [[secondary school]] (gymnasium) in Niš and Belgrade with [[maturity diploma]] in 1952, then he studied with focus on English-speaking literature at the former Department of Yugoslav and World Literature of the [[University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology|Philological Faculty of Belgrade’s University]] and graduated with [[diploma]] in 1962. During his study time, he worked for the companies Intercont and Jugoelektro in Belgrade, and completed his [[military service]] in [[Yugoslav Army]]. After completion of his academic education, he became teacher for [[Serbo-Croatian language]] and literature at the care facility for children and adolescents (Prihvatilište za decu i omladinu), in which he taught young people who were victims of [[domestic violence]], maltreatment, abuse and neglect from 1963-64, then he worked as librarian at the [[school library]] of [[Zemun Gymnasium]] until his retirement in 1985.<ref>Biography in: Leksikon pisaca Jugoslavije, Volume 4, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1997 ([[World Biographical Information System Online|WBIS]]).</ref><ref>Biography in: Ko je ko u Srbiji, Bibliofon, Belgrade 1996 ([[World Biographical Information System Online|WBIS]]).</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2vvN7nD Biography], Serbian Literary Society, retrieved 2019-04-30</ref><ref>[https://jugoelektro.rs Jugoelektro], official website, retrieved 2019-04-30.</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2PC6KUi Prihvatilište za decu], official website, retrieved 2019-04-30.</ref>

In 1970, he began to publish his first poems, and numerous book editions of his poetry have been published over the course of the following years, additionally more than 400 publications in Serbian literary journals such as Letopis [[Matica srpska|Matice srpske]] (Chronicle of Serbian Matica), Književne novine (Literary News), Sveske (Notebooks), [[Polja (literary magazine)|Polja]] (Fields) and many others, also in the [[Austria|Austrian]] literary journal Lichtungen selected poems in German translation. He translated poetry of [[Wystan Hugh Auden]], [[Seamus Heaney]] and [[Philip Larkin]] into Serbian, also [[Haiku]] poetry of [[Yosa Buson]] and [[Matsuo Bashō]] in co-operation with Hiroshi Yamasaki Vukelić (son of [[Branko Vukelić (spy)|Branko Vukelić]]). [[Tanja Kragujević]] commemorates his life and work in an essay on her Website, and recalls his significance for contemporary Serbian [[poetry]].<ref>[http://bit.ly/2vvN7UF Lichtungen], Volume 25/2004, p. 110-111.</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2PC6NiW Srba Mitrović], official website of Tanja Kragujevać, retrieved 2019-04-30.</ref><ref>[http://bit.ly/2vuUb40 Portrait of Srba Mitrović], [[Bookstore]] Knjižara Beograd, retrieved 2019-04-30.</ref>

==Bibliography (selection)==
*''Metastrofe: pesme'' ([[Meta]][[strophes]]: poems), [[Publishing|Nolit]], Belgrade 1972.
*''Opkoračenja'' ([[Enjambment|Enjambments]]), poetry, [[Matica srpska]], Novi Sad 1975.
*''Šuma koja lebdi'' (Floating Forest), poetry, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1991, .
*''Antologija engleske poezije: 1945-1990'' (Anthology of [[English poetry]]: 1945-1990), compiled and partially translated by Srba Mitrović, Svetovi, Novi Sad 1992, .<ref>[[Sonja Veselinović]], [http://bit.ly/2PAguhC Two Anthologies of Contemporary English Poetry in the Serbian Language], [[Academia.edu]], retrieved 2019-04-30.</ref>
*''Žaoba'' (Mourning), Svetovi, Novi Sad 1993, .
*''Antologija američke poezije: 1945-1994'' (Anthology of [[American Poetry]]: 1945-1994), compiled and partially translated by Srba Mitrović, Svetovi, Novi Sad 1994, .
*''Snimci za panoramu'' (Recordings for [[Panorama]]), poetry, Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1996, .
*''Uzmicanje: kasne pesme'' (Retreat: late poems), Rad, Belgrade 1999, .
*''Izabrane: 1970-2003'' (Selected: 1970-2003), poetry Draslar, Belgrade 2003, .
*''Gozba'' (Feast), poetry, Narodna knjiga - Alfa, Belgrade 2004, .
*''S Kalemegdana: jesenja haiku slikovnica'' (From [[Kalemegdan]]: autumnal [[Haiku]] picture book), Otkrovenje, [[New Belgrade]] 2006, .
*''Magline, sazvežđa: snovidne mape'' ([[Nebulas]], [[Constellations]]: Superficial Maps), poetry, Rad, Belgrade 2007, .

==Awards==
*[[Milan Rakić]] Award 1991 for ''Šuma koja lebdi''
*Miloš N. Đurić Award 1993 for ''Antologija engleske poezije: 1945-1990''
*[[Branko Miljković]] Award 1996 for ''Snimci za panoramu''
*[[Isidora Sekulić Award]] 1996 for ''Snimci za panoramu''
*[[Jovan Jovanović Zmaj|Zmaj]] Award 1999 for ''Uzmicanje''
*Award of the Association of Serbian Literary Translators for his ''complete work of tranlations'' 2001

==References==






[[Category:1931 births]]
[[Category:2007 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Svrljig]]
[[Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni]]
[[Category:Serbian poets]]
[[Category:Serbian male poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Serbian poets]]
[[Category:21st-century Serbian poets]]
[[Category:Serbian translators]]
[[Category:Literary translators]]
[[Category:Translators to Serbian]]
[[Category:Translators from English]]
[[Category:Translators from Japanese]]
[[Category:Librarians]]


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