Vojin Jelić ( sr-cyr, Војин Јелић; 27 November 1921 – 19 December 2004) was a Croatian Serb writer and poet. His literally work was focused on neo-veristic introspective and retrospective interaction with Serb culture and stories from the Knin region and the wider

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. Jelić's work was translated into

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, Slovene, Macedonian and English.

Biography

He was born in

Knin Knin () is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka (Croatia), Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagreb and Split, Croatia, Split. ...

in 1921. Jelić finished gymnasium in

Šibenik Šibenik (), historically known as Sebenico (), is a historic town in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka (Croatia), Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is one of the oldest Croatia, Croatian self-governing cities ...

in 1940. He went on to study pharmacy in

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

. During the

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Jelić joined

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

where he joined their units in 1943. From 1944 je joined editorijal board of the ''Srpska riječ'' ("The Serb Word") magazine. Following the end of war Jelić initiated forestry studies in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

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in 1945 and he completed his studies in

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1949. He wrote about Serbian culture and stories from the Knin region and

. He contributed to various publications and worked as a faculty lecturer and cultural advisor in various institutions in the

Socialist Republic of Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

. Jelić was the secretary general of the SKD Prosvjeta. Jelić distanced himself from public life in Croatia in 1992 during the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

and after Nedjeljko Mihanović verbally attacked him on ethnic basis. He died in Zagreb in 2004.

Published works

* 1950: ''Đukin đerdan'' * 1952: ''Ljudi kamenjara'' * 1952: ''Limeni pijetao'' * 1952: ''Ni brige te sivi tiću'' * 1953: ''Anđeli lijepo pjevaju'' * 1956: ''Nebo nema obala'' * 1959: ''Trka slijepih konja'' * 1960: ''Lete slijepi miševi'' * 1961: ''Ne damo vam umrijeti'' * 1963: ''Trči mali život'' * 1969: ''Domino'' * 1970: ''Kirvaj'' * 1975: ''Pobožni đavo'' * 1977: ''Gorki bajami'' * 1981: ''Doživotni grešnici'' * 1986: ''Kozji dvorac'' * 1996: ''Pogledajte svoje ruke'' * 2000: ''Dražba zavičaja''

Sources

* 1921 births 2004 deaths People from Knin Serbs of Croatia Croatian male poets Vladimir Nazor Award winners Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery 20th-century Croatian poets 20th-century male writers Yugoslav poets {{Serbia-writer-stub