Stevan Raičković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Стеван Раичковић; 5 July 1928 – 6 May 2007) was a Serbian poet, writer and academic.

Biography

Raičković was born in to a family of teachers which moved a lot around the country as he was growing up. He pursued his gymnasium education in

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and

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, where he graduated in 1947 and started writing for various newspapers at the age of 17 including

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. Soon after Raičković started his studies at Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. His first job was at the redaction of

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and afterwards as an editor in Prosveta publishing house. He was elected as a corresponding member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 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 ...

in 1972. and a full member nine years later. Some of his awards include: Zmajeva, Neven, Njegoš's award, Goran's wraith ward, Branko Miljkovic award for poetry, Milos N. Djuric award for the best translation, Vuk's award, the 7 July award, October award of cities of

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and

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. Raičković translated numerous poets including

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 ...

Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈtaɪvə; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russia ...

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

, Shakespeare's sonnets and

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...

. His collected works were published in 1998. and translated in more than 10 languages.

Works

* Detinjstva (1950) * Pesma tišine (1952) * Balada o predvečerju (1955) * Kasno leto (1958) * Tisa (1961) * Kamena uspavanka (1963) * Stihovi (1964) * Prolazi rekom lađa (1967) * Varke (1967) * Zapisi (1971) * Zapisi o crnom Vladimiru (1971) * Slučajni memoari (1978) * Točak za mučenje (1981) * Panonske ptice (1988) * Monolog na Topoli (1988) * Svet oko mene (1988) * Stihovi iz dnevnika (1990) * Fascikla 1999/2000 (2004) * Čarolija o Herceg-Novom (1989) * Suvišna pesma (1991) * Kineska priča (1995) * Intimne mape (1978) * Zlatna greda (1993) * Beleške o poeziji (1978) * Portreti pesnika (1987) * Dnevnik o poeziji (1990) * Dnevnik o poeziji II (1997) * Nulti ciklus (1998) * U društvu pesnika (2000) * Slova i besede (2000) * Linija magle (2001) * Monolog o poeziji (2001) * Veliko dvorište (1955) * Družina pod suncem (1960) * Gurije (1962) * Krajcara i druge pesme (1971) * Vetrenjača (1974) * Male bajke (1974) * Slike i prilike (1978) * Selidba (1983) * Jedan mogući život (Homo poeticus) (2002)

Translations

* Shakespeare's sonnets (1964) * Six Russian poets (1970) * Love sonnets – Petrarch (1974) * Slovenske rime (1976) * Zlatna jesen – selection of poetry by Boris Pasternak (1990)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raickovic, Stevan 1928 births 2007 deaths People from Kučevo Serbian male poets Serbian children's writers Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Serbian writers Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery