Borisav Stanković
Borisav "Bora" Stanković (Cyrillic Борисав "Бора" Станковић; born March 31, 1876 in Vranje ; † October 22, 1927 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian writer .
Life
Stanković attended school in his southern Serbian hometown of Vranje and studied at the Belgrade Faculty of Law , where he then worked as a civil servant. During the First World War he was first in Niš and then in Montenegro , where he was captured. After the war he worked in the Ministry of Justice in Belgrade.
Works
Stanković was mainly a prose writer who wrote novels and short stories. He also wrote plays. He is counted among the Serbian realism. In his works the theme of the declining old patriarchal social structure and the portrayal of the strongly oriental southern Serbia dominates.
In German, the novel Hadschi Gajka married his girl , written by him in 1910 (original title: Нечиста крв ), as well as the 1902 drama Koštana , which was also set to music as an opera by P. Konjović in 1931, were published.
Afterlife
In 1975 the Yugoslav Post Office issued a stamp in honor of Borisav Stanković. An express train between Belgrade and Skopje also bears his name.
literature
- Christa Glatz: Analysis of Borisav Stanković's portrayal of persons, 1983
Web links
- Literature by and about Borisav Stanković in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stanković, Borisav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Станковић, Борисав (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vranje |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1927 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |