Stevan Raičković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: 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

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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; , . ( – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova,. ...

Marina Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( rus, Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə, links=yes; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russ ...

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...

Shakespeare's sonnets William Shakespeare (1565 –1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. Howe ...

and

Petrarch Francis Petrarch (; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; ; modern ), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanism, humanists. Petrarch's redis ...

. 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 Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery