Vasko Popa

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Vasko Popa

Vasile 'Vasko' Popa ( Serbian - Cyrillic Васко Попа , born June 29, 1922 in Grebenac; died January 5, 1991 in Belgrade ) was a Serbian poet .

Life

Popa was born in Grebenac in Vojvodina in 1922 . He belonged to the Romanian minority. After graduating from secondary school, Popa studied in Belgrade, Bucharest and Vienna . After the end of the Second World War , in which he was interned in the Bečkerek concentration camp, Popa completed his studies in Romance languages in Belgrade. He published his first poems after the war in the newspapers Književne novine and Borba . From 1954 to 1979 he worked at the Nolit publishing house as an editor. During his lifetime he was awarded numerous literary prizes for his work. Vasko Popa died of cancer on January 5, 1991 in Belgrade.

Literary work

Vasko Popa wrote in the modernist style, mixing surrealism and Serbian folk poetry. His poems were not rhyming, often aphorisms . The English poet Ted Hughes called Popa an "epic poet". Also Octavio Paz was one of Popas admirers.

criticism

“But in his poems he stuck to the objects of his Banat pre-war childhood, with the chestnut in his neck, the red death boots in the coffin - with the normally eerie stuff of a long lost time in which the old women still socialized with the wolves and in the evening Put cakes with candles for the dead on small boards. Popa tells about the things of the village with the terse, sparse gestures of a thin-skinned city dweller who is used to taking the night train to Paris to tell his surrealistic poet friends about the wolf men and their great howls. "

- Iris Radisch in: Die Zeit

Works

  • Kora (Кора) , 1953
  • Nepočin polje (Непочин-поље) , 1965
  • Sporedno nebo (Споредно небо) , 1968
  • Uspravna zemlja (Усправна земља) 1972
  • Vučja so (Вучја со) , 1975
  • Kuća nasred druma (Кућа насред друма) , 1975
  • Živo meso (Живо месо) , 1975
  • Rez (Рез) , 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.znanje.org/i/i22/02iv03/02iv0312/biografija.html
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/09/obituaries/vasko-popa-68-poet-examining-life-with-humor.html
  3. ↑ On the death of Vasko Popa: About the villages . In: The time . No. 10/1991 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Popa, Vasko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popa, Vasile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Grebenac
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1991
Place of death Belgrade