Skender Kulenović

Skender Kulenović (1943)

Skender Kulenović ( Cyrillic Скендер Куленовић; born September 2, 1910 in Bosanski Petrovac , Austria-Hungary , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ; † January 25, 1978 in Belgrade, today Serbia ) was a Yugoslav poet.

Skender attended elementary school in his hometown. In the third grade he wrote a collection of sonnets called Ocvale primule ("wilted primroses"). Since his family suddenly slipped into poverty, probably because of the “agricultural reform”, he moved to Travnik , his mother's birthplace. There he joined the Jesuits - high school , and then studied law at the University of Zagreb . During his studies he came into contact with circles of social literature.

During the Second World War he took part in the fight against German troops and the Ustasha . At this time he began to be politically active as a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia .

His best-known poem Stojanka majka Knežopoljka ( Lamentation of Mother Stojanka ) tells of a massacre in the Kozara Mountains, which was carried out there by members of the Wehrmacht and the Ustasha of partisans and civilians.

Individual evidence

^ Jelena Batinić: Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance . Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-09107-8 , pp. 51 f .

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personal data
SURNAME	Kulenović, Skender
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Куленовић, Скендер (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav poet
DATE OF BIRTH	September 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bosanski Petrovac , Austria-Hungary , today Bosnia and Herzegovina
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1978
Place of death	Belgrade, today Serbia

[1] Jelena Batinić: Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance . Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-09107-8 , pp. 51 f .