Vojin Jelić ( sr-cyr, Војин Јелић; 27 November 1921 – 19 December 2004) was a

Croatian Serb The Serbs of Croatia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Срби у Хрватској, Srbi u Hrvatskoj) or Croatian Serbs ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", хрватски Срби, hrvatski Srbi) constitute the largest national minority in Croa ...

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

Dalmatian Hinterland The Dalmatian Hinterland ( hr, Dalmatinska zagora; it, La Morlacca or ) is the southern inland hinterland in the historical Croatian region of Dalmatia. The name ''zagora'' means "beyond (the) hills", which is a reference to the fact that it is t ...

. Jelić's work was translated into

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, Slovene,

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and

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Biography

He was born in

Knin Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...

in 1921. Jelić finished gymnasium in

Šibenik Šibenik () is a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Šibenik-Knin County, and is also the ...

in 1940. He went on to study pharmacy in

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

. During the

World War II in Yugoslavia World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the US ...

Jelić joined

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...

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 ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

in 1945 and he completed his studies in

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...

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), or SR Croatia, was a constituent republic and federated state of the Social ...

. 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 was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugosl ...

and after

Nedjeljko Mihanović Nedjeljko Mihanović (; 16 February 1930 – 27 January 2022) was a Croatian politician who served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1994 to 1995. He was an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Croatian ...

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