Desanka MAKSIMOVIĆ Writer; (b. Rabrovica (Valjevo), 16 May 1898 – d. Belgrade, 11 February 1993)

Writer, poet; substitute teacher in Dubrovnik School of Teacher Education, 1925-1926; professor of the First Gymnasium for girls in Belgrade, 1926-1941

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language=Department of Language and Literature: corresponding member from 17 December 1959; full member from 16 December 1965

Accession speech: She read three poems from her collection of poems ‘Tražim pomilovanje’ [I Seek Clemency] at a ceremonial gathering on 28 April 1966. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 402 : 30 (1967) 143-145.

Biography and bibliography: God. / SANU 85 (1979) 259-343

Awards and recognitions: October Prize of the City of Kragujevac for ‘Krvava bajka’ [Bloody Fairtale], 1963; the 7th July Award, 1964; AVNOJ Award 1970; Vuk’s Prize, 1974; lifetime achievement award of Association of Serbian Writers, 1984; Njegoš’s Award, 1984 … and other awards and orders.

Obituary: God. / SANU 100 (1994) 471-476 (M. Pantić, Lj. Simović)

Photograph: SANU F-611/1