Milica Stojadinovi?-Srpkinja
Portrait of poet Milica Stojadinovi?-Srpkinja
Born	( 1828-07-06 ) 6 July 1828 Bukovac , Petrovaradin , Austrian Empire
Died	25 July 1878 (1878-07-25) (aged 50) [1] Belgrade , Principality of Serbia
Occupation	Poet

Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja ( Serbian Cyrillic : Милица Сто?адинови? Српки?а , pronounced [militsa st?jad?ːn?v?it? sr??pki?a] ) (1828?1878) was a Serbian poet , sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".

Career [ edit ]

As her fame spread beyond the confines of Serbian culture of the Austrian Empire , Prince Mihailo Obrenovi? would invite her to court when she came to Belgrade and Vienna -based anthropologist and poet Johann Gabriel Seidl devoted a poem to her.

She corresponded extensively with writers đorđe Rajkovi? (1825?1886), Ljubomir Nenadovi? , Vuk Stefanovi? Karad?i? and his daughter Wilhelmine/Mina, Bo?ena N?mcova , and with Ludwig August von Frankl . In 1891 an almanach Die Dioskuren was issued in Vienna by Ludwig von Frankl with a collection of letters written by Milica Stojadinovi?.

Reception [ edit ]

Her work, though, has been mostly out of the public eye and almost forgotten except by literary experts for most of the 20th century, first during fin-de-siecle modernist poeticism as an outdated poetic form of pre-1870s, and later, under Communist rule as an unacceptable expression of patriotism for only one of the six nations of Yugoslavia (namely: Serbian).

After Josip Broz Tito 's death the awareness of her work was revived, and in the last quarter of a century a four-day poetry memorial is convened annually in Novi Sad in her honour, where a poetry prize bearing her name is awarded to prominent poets from Serbia.

Biljana Doj?inovi? has written on the role of Stojadinovi?-Srpkinja in the development of women's writing in Serbia, through a feminist framework. ^[2]

See also [ edit ]

• Eustahija Arsi?
• Ana Marija Marovi?
• Princess Anka Obrenovi?
• Staka Skenderova
• Draga Dejanovi?

Notes [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

• Jovan Skerli? , Istorija Nove Srpske Knji?evnosti / History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1914, 1921), p. 208. Her biography was translated from Skerli?'s Serbian into English for this entry in the Wikipedia.

External links [ edit ]

• Works by or about Milica Stojadinovi?-Srpkinja at Internet Archive