Mira Alečković (2 February 1924,
Novi Sad – 27 February 2008) was a Serbian and Yugoslav poet.
Biography
She received a degree in
Slavic Studies
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in
Belgrade
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, and went to further study at the
Sorbonne. She participated in the pre-World War II leftist movement. During the
World War II in Yugoslavia she participated in
Yugoslav Partisans movement actions.
In Socialist
Yugoslavia she gained considerable popularity, especially for her
children's poetry
Children's poetry is poetry written for, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children.
Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes. Children have always enjoyed both works of p ...
and
partisan
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Military
* Partisan (weapon), a pole weapon
* Partisan (military), paramilitary forces engaged behind the front line
Films
* ''Partisan'' (film), a 2015 Australian film
* ''Hell River'', a 1974 Yugoslavian film also know ...
songs.
Her works have been translated in more than 20 languages.
Works
;Collections of poems
*'' Zvezdane balade'', 1946
*''Pionirsko proleće'', 1955
*''Prijatelji'', 1956
*''Lastavica'', 1957
*''Srebrni voz'', 1963
*''Sunčani soliteri'', 1970
*''Da život bude ljubav'', 1972
*''Sanjalica'', 1975
*''Ne mogu bez snova'', 1980
*''Staza srebrom izvezena'', 1982
;Novels
*''Srebrna Kosa'', 1953
*''Zbogom velika tajno'', 1960
*''Zašto grdiš reku?''
*''Jutro''
References
External links
Translated works by Mira Alečković
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1924 births
2008 deaths
Writers from Novi Sad
Serbian women poets
20th-century Serbian poets
Yugoslav poets