Milica Janković (
Požarevac
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, 23 November 1881 -
Niška Banja
Niška Banja ( sr-Cyrl, Нишка Бања) is a town and one of five city municipalities which constitute the city of Niš. It is also one of the spa resorts in Serbia. It is located east of Niš.
According to the 2011 census, the population ...
, 27 June 1939) was a Serbian writer of prose and verse.
Milica Janković is also known under her
pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ( orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's o ...
''Leposava Mihajlovic''. She graduated from high school in
Veliko Gradište
Veliko Gradište ( sr-cyr, Велико Градиште, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of eastern Serbia. It is located on the right bank of the Danube River and left bank of the Pek River. In 2022, the town ...
and both the then-Philology secion of the Philosophy college (future Philology College, with Russian major) in 1904 and the art school of the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...
in 1907 (with some courses taken at
Munich
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). From 1906, she went on to have a teaching career that lasted for more than three decades. She never married.
Her chief work is ''Ispovesti'' ("Confessions"), a collection of
modernist
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
short stories. According to a critic, Jankovic's ''Ispovesti'' stories may be compared also with the best of
Jovan Dučić
Jovan Dučić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Дучић, ; 15 February 1872 – 7 April 1943) was a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb poet-diplomat and academic.
He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and Modernist poetry, modernist poe ...
's travel letters and the most perfect essays by
Bogdan Popović,
Pavle Popović,
Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as o ...
, and
Slobodan Jovanović
Slobodan Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Јовановић; 3 December 1869 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer, historian, lawyer, philosopher, literary critic, diplomat, politician and one of the most prominent int ...
. "Characterized by a clear, lively, flexible style, ''Ispovesti'' is undoubtedly the most original Serbian book of 1913. So much love, tenderness and warm understanding of suffering humanity is to be found only in one other place: The Bible."
Works
Books
*Ispovesti (1913)
* Pre sreće (1918)
* Kaluđer iz Rusije (1919)
*Neznani junaci (1919)
*Čekanje (1920)
*Istinite priče za decu i o deci (1922)
*Priroda i deca. Pripovetke za decu (1922)
*Smrt i život (1922)
*Plava gospođa (1922)
*Dušica (1924)
*Pripovetke za školsku omladinu 1 (1927)
*Pripovetke za školsku omladinu 2 (1929)
*Plavi dobroćudni vali (1929)
*Među zidovima (1932)
*Mutna i krvava (1932)
*Putem (1932)
*Zec i miš. Priče o životinjama (1934)
*Žuta porodica i druge priče (1935)
*LJudi iz skamije (1937)
Articles
*Otrgnuti listovi iz dnevnika jedne devojke. Ja i okolina (1909)
*Otrgnuti listovi iz dnevnika jedne devojke. Izlet (1909)
*Otrgnuti listovi iz dnevnika jedne devojke. Biser u blatu. (1909)
*Otrgnuti listovi iz dnevnika jedne devojke. Podvig (1909)
*Otrgnuti listovi iz dnevnika jedne devojke. Da li?... (1909)
*Jeno neposlato pismo (1909)
*Pesma o životu (1910)
*Malo srce. (Iz beležaka nesrećnog čoveka) (1911)
*Bolničarka (1911)
*Nepogoda (1912)
*LJubomora (1912)
*Skice (1912)
*Rat (1912)
*Nikad (1913)
*Prva (1913)
*Nikome ne trebam (1913)
*Događaj (Istina) (1914)
*Ex ponto, Ivo Andrić (1919)
*Moj otac I (1920)
*Moj otac II (1920)
*Redom (prvi deo) (1920)
*Redom (svršetak) (1920)
*Tetka i teča (1920)
*Iz Dubrovnika. Noć na Stradumu. Dom na Jadranu (1921)
*Tuđa pripovetka (1922)
*O - ruk (1922)
*Veliki (1923)
*Bela kobila (1923)
*Opštinska drva (1923)
*Bogdan (1923)
*Deset godina (1924)
*Kate Marćeli (1924)
*Ada Negri (1924)
*Na visinama lepote (1925)
*Jedna lepa proslava (1925)
*Izložba crteža G. G. LJ. Ivanovića i Ž. Nastasijevića (1925)
*Stojan Stević (1925)
*Stojan Stević (2) (1925)
*Stojan Stević (3) (1925)
*Stojan Stević (kraj) (1925)
*Dve lepotice (1926)
*Svetlost i Senka (1926)
*Varijete (1926)
*Anđelija L. Lazarević (1926)
*Gospođa Beta Vukanović (1926)
*Poslednja fioka desno (1927)
*Derište (1927)
*Trovanje (1928)
*Mala Francuskinja (1928)
*Tajna (1929)
*"Roblje zarobljeno" Grigorije Božović (1930)
*Slikarka (1930)
*Umetničke ludorije (1930)
*Salomon Renak: Apolo (1930)
*D. J. Filipović "Kosovski Božuri" (1931)
*Cvećarnica (1931)
*Pesme G. Ž. Milićević (1931)
*Mara Đorđević Malugarska: Vita Đanina i druge pripovetke (1932)
*Krug se širi (1934)
*LJubavi (1934)
*Drina (1935)
*Nehotična izdaja (1937)
*Dečko (1937)
*Osveta (1938)
*Pravda (1938)
*Deca na Lokrumu (1939)
*Ćifte (1939)
*Otkidanja (1940)
Translations
*Lav Nikolajevič Tolstoj, Detinjstvo, dečaštvo, mladost (1914)
*P.M. Arcibašev, Osvetnik (1921)
*Mihail Petrovič Arcibašev, Osvetnik (1921)
References
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Serbian novelists
Serbian women novelists
Serbian translators
Serbian women short story writers
Serbian short story writers
Serbian children's literature
20th-century Serbian people
Writers from Požarevac
1881 births
1939 deaths
20th-century Serbian writers
20th-century Serbian women writers
20th-century Serbian translators
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni