Jovan Popović ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Поповић; 18 November 1905 – 13 February 1952) was a Serbian writer and academic. Popović was born in

Kikinda Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia. The city's urban area has 32,084 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 49,326 inhabit ...

, in modern-day

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. He joined the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

in the beginning of the armed struggle in Serbia in 1941. He became a member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...

on November 14, 1950. His statue stands on the square of his hometown of

and a grammar school in

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

is named after him.

Selected works

* ''Knjiga drugova'' (1929) * ''Reda mora da bude'' (1932) * ''Lica u prolazu'' (1941) * ''Istinite legende'' (1944)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popovic, Jovan 1905 births 1952 deaths Writers from Kikinda Serbian male poets Yugoslav Partisans members 20th-century Serbian poets Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery