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Mira Alečković (2 February 1924,
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– 27 February 2008) was a Serbian and Yugoslav poet.


Biography

She lived in
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since age two, but spent her childhood between villages in
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,
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,
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, and
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, where her aunt Jelena Trpinac worked as a school teacher. Alečković finished primary and secondary school in Belgrade. She received a degree in
Slavic Studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or ...
at
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, and went to further study at the Sorbonne. She participated in the pre-World War II leftist movement. During
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she participated in
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movement actions. After the war, Alečković published her first collection of poems ''Zvezdane balade'' in 1946, inspired by the struggle of people in the Yugoslav region. In 1949, she published poetry collections ''Dani razigrani'' and ''Tri proleća'', while her first novel ''Srebrna kosa'' appeared in 1953. She edited some of the first newspapers for young people after the war, including the newspapers ''Omladina'', ''Mladost'' and ''Pionir''. Together with fellow writers, she founded the youth literary magazine ''Zmaj'', where she was the editor-in-chief for 40 years. In Socialist
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she gained considerable popularity, especially for her
children's poetry Children's poetry is poetry children's literature, written for, appropriate for children, appropriate for, or enjoyed by children. Children's poetry is one of the oldest art forms, rooted in early oral tradition, folk poetry, and nursery rhymes ...
and
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songs. Her works have been translated in more than 20 languages.


Works

; ;Collections of poems *''Zvezdane balade'', 1946 *''Dani razigrani,'' 1949 *''Tri proleća'',1949 *''Pionirsko proleće'', 1955 *''Prijatelji'', 1956 *''Lastavica'', 1957 *''Srebrni voz'', 1963 *''Sunčani soliteri'', 1970 *''Da život bude ljubav'', 1972 *''Sanjalica'', 1975 *''Ne mogu bez snova'', 1980 *''Staza srebrom izvezena'', 1982 ; ;Novels *''Srebrna Kosa'', 1953 *''Zbogom velika tajno'', 1960 *''Zašto grdiš reku?'' *''Jutro''


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Translated works by Mira Alečković
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aleckovic, Mira 1924 births 2008 deaths Writers from Novi Sad Serbian women poets 20th-century Serbian poets Yugoslav poets Yugoslav women poets Writers from Belgrade University of Belgrade alumni 20th-century Serbian women writers Children's poets Serbian women children's writers