Simo Matavulj ( sr, Симо Матавуљ, 14 September 1852 – 20 February 1908) was a Serbian writer. He was a representative of lyric realism, especially in short prose. As a writer, he is best known for employing his skill in holding up to ridicule the peculiar foibles of the Dalmatian folk. He was an honorary member of the

Matica srpska The Matica srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Матица српска, Matica srpska, la, Matrix Serbica, grc, Μάτιτσα Σρπσκα) is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national inst ...

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the P ...

, the first president of the

Association of Writers of Serbia The Association of Writers of Serbia ( Serbian: Удружење књижевника Србије, ''Udruženje književnika Srbije'') is Serbia's official writing association. Its current president is Milovan Vitezović. History The association ...

, president of the Society of Artists of Serbia and a member of the

Serbian Royal Academy The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

Legacy

Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić called him "the master storyteller".

Works

*''Noć uoči Ivanje'', Zadar, 1873. *''Naši prosjaci'', Zadar, 1881. *''Iz Crne Gore i Primorja I'', Novi Sad, 1888. *''Iz Crne Gore i Primorja II'', Cetinje, 1889. *''Novo oružje'', Belgrade, 1890. *''Iz prіmorskog žіvota'', Zagreb, 1890. *''Sa Jadrana, Belgrade'', 1891. *''Iz beogradskog života,'' Belgrade, 1891. *''Bakonja fra-Brne'', Belgrade, 1892. *''Uskok'', Belgrade, 1893. *''Iz raznijeh krajeva'', Mostar, 1893. *''Boka i Bokelji'', Novi Sad, 1893. *''Primorska obličja'', Novi Sad, 1899. *''Deset godina u Mavritaniji'', Belgrade, 1899. *''Tri pripovetke, Mostar'', 1899. *''Na pragu drugog života'', Sremski Karlovci, 1899. *''S mora i planine'', Novi Sad, 1901. *''Beogradske priče'', Belgrade, 1902. *''Pošljednji vitezovi i Svrzimantija'', Mostar, 1903. *''Život'', Belgrade 1904. *''Na slavi'', Belgrade, 1904. *''Zavjet'', Belgrade, 1904. *''Car Duklijan'', Mostar, 1906. *''Nemirne duše'', Belgrade, 1908. *''Bilješke jednoga pisca'', Belgrade, 1923. *''Golub Dobrašinović''

Translations

*''Na vodi'' by

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

, 1893. *''Vilina knjiga'', a collection of fairy tales, 1894. *''

Bleak House ''Bleak House'' is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, an ...

'' by

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

1893. *''Zimske priče'' by M. de Vogie, 1894. *''The dream'' by

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

*''Pučanin kao vlastelin'' by Moliere, 1906. *''

The Misanthrope ''The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover'' (french: Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux; ) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris ...

'' by Moliere, *''

The Imitation of Christ ''The Imitation of Christ'', by Thomas à Kempis, is a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as ''De Imitatione Christi'' ( 1418–1427).''An introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious studies'', by Orlando O. Esp� ...

'' by

Thomas à Kempis Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; german: Thomas von Kempen; nl, Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of '' The Imitation of Christ'', published anonymously in Latin in the ...

, unpublished during Matavulj's lifetime

References

* Translated and adapted from

Jovan Skerlić Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as one ...

's ''Istorija nove srpske književnosti'' / History of New Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1921), pp. 390–395.

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