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4 unusual facts about Borisav Stanković


Borisav Stanković

Borisav Stanković's best work is the 1910 novel entitled Impure Blood (Nečista krv) about the plight of a young woman unable to free herself from the old customs and restrictions.

These Serbian prose writers showed many traits in common with the Russians, particularly with Dostoyevsky (Borisav Stanković), and to a certain extent also with Maxim Gorky (Ivo Čipiko and Petar Kočić).

During World War I he resided in Niš, then in Montenegro where he was taken captive by the Austrians and incarcerated in a PoW camp in Derventa in Bosnia.

Svetolik Ranković

His contemporaries were Veljko M. Milićević, Ivo Ćipiko, Borisav Stanković, Janko Veselinović, Petar Kočić, Simo Matavulj, Radoje Domanović, Milorad J. Mitrović (poet), Stevan Sremac, Laza Kostić and others.


Svetlana Velmar-Janković

She has received numerous awards and prizes for her work, including the Isidora Sekulić, Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Đorđe Jovanović, Borisav Stanković and Pera Todorović prizes.


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