Radovan Zogović (

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: Радован Зоговић) (18 August 1907 – 5 January 1986) was a Montenegrin poet. He was born in Mašnica, Plav, in northeastern

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on 19 August 1907. Before

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he lived in

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and Belgrade, working as a literary critic and a secondary school teacher,enciklopedija.hr
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. His first book of poetry, ''Glineni golubovi'' (Clay Pigeons, 1937), was banned by the Yugoslav royal regime. He joined the Partisans in 1941, and after World War II he was briefly one of the most prominent figures in Yugoslav government, as head of the propaganda of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, authoring several programmatic and polemical articles and criticism from the standpoint of dogmatic real socialism (''Na poprištu'', "At the scene", 1948). He was expelled from the League of Communists and put under house arrest in 1948 in connection with the Tito-Stalin split. He was accused of being

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and for

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among else. In the late 1960s Zogović was semi-rehabilitated, and in that period his best works were published: poetry collections ''Prkosne strofe'' ("Defiant verses", 1947), ''Žilama za kamen'' ("Veins for the rock"), ''Artikulisana riječ'' ("Articulated word", 1965), ''Lično, sasvim lično'' ("Personal, very personal"), ''Noć i pola vijeka'' ("A night and half a century", 1978) and ''Knjaževska kancelarija'' (The Prince's Office). He also wrote the novel ''Pejsaži i nešto se dešava'' ("The landscape and something happens", 1968). His poetry at first was very socially engaged, critical and polemical towards social reality, while in the later songs predominate landscape and homeland motifs and reflection on youth, the passage of time and fate. His poems have been translated in many languages, and he himself translated works from Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish and Macedonian authors, including

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Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...

and

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. Among his close friends were the

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n poet

Desanka Maksimović Desanka Maksimović ( sr-Cyrl, Десанка Максимовић; 16 May 1898 – 11 February 1993) was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal ''Misao'' in 1920, while she was studying at th ...

and the Montenegrin novelist

Mihailo Lalić Mihailo Lalić ( sr-cyr, Михаило Лалић, ; 7 October 1914 – 30 December 1992) was a Montenegrin and Serbian writer. Biography He was born in Trepča (Andrijevica municipality) village in north-eastern Montenegro in 1914. His most im ...

. He was a member of the

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. He died of

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on 5 January 1986 in

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. His wife Vera (who died in 2003) was also a translator from Russian, and his daughter Mirka from Italian.

References

External links

''INSTRUKCIJA MASLINI''
(1958)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zogovic, Radovan 1907 births 1986 deaths People from Plav, Montenegro Montenegrin poets Montenegrin male writers Members of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts 20th-century poets Montenegrin communists Yugoslav dissidents