Milka Canić ( sr-cyr, Милка Цанић; 18 July 1944 – 19 October 2016) was the

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of the Serbian TV

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TV Slagalica ''TV Slagalica'' (Serbian Cyrillic: ; en, TV Puzzle) or simply ''Slagalica'' is a Serbian quiz show produced by RTS and airs on RTS1. It is based on ''Des chiffres et des lettres'', a French game show. It first aired on 22 November 1993. at 7 p ...

" (formerly known as "Muzička Slagalica"), which has aired every day at 19:00

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channel 1 since 1993.

Career

Canić graduated from the

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and was a professor of the Serbian language at the gymnasium in Priština, at the military gymnasium in Belgrade, and at XV Belgrade gymnasium. Canić worked for five years on

program ''"Srbija danas"'' (''Serbia today''), and after that she became part of "Slagalica" crew about 10 years ago, and gained enormous popularity in Serbia since then. On

2008 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 11 May 2008 to elect members of the National Assembly. The election was held barely a year after the previous parliamentary election. There were 6,749,886 eligible electors who were able to vote in 8 ...

Milka Canić was a candidate of the

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(DSS).

Death

Milka Canić died in Belgrade on 19 October 2016 after a long illness, aged 72.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canic, Milka 1944 births 2016 deaths Serbian schoolteachers Serbian television personalities University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni