Boško Petrović
Petrović photographed by Branko Lučić
Petrović photographed by Branko Lučić
Native name
Бошко Петровић
Born(1915-01-07)7 January 1915
Nagyvárad, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died30 June 2001(2001-06-30) (aged 86)
Novi Sad, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia

Boško Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бошко Петровић; 7 January 1915  30 June 2001) was a Serbian novelist[1] and poet. He was also secretary and president of Matica Srpska.

Biography

Boško Petrović was born on 7 January 1915 in Oradea Mare (Veliki Varadin), grew up in Morović, and was educated in Novi Sad and Belgrade. During World War II, he was captured and taken to a German POW camp, and after the war, he settled in Novi Sad. He worked in the publishing company Budućnost, then in the publishing company Matica Srpska, for a while as a director and then as an editor-in-chief, until his retirement in 1981. He was a member of the editorial board of the "Chronicle" of Matica Srpska (1953-1964), editor of the "Chronicle" of Matica Srpska[2](1965-1969), secretary of Matica Srpska (1969-1979), president of Matica Srpska (since 1991) and longtime member of the Board of the Serbian Literary Association. He was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on 21 March 1974, and a full member on 7 May 1981.[3] He died in Novi Sad on 30 June 2001.[3]

Literary career

Boško Petrović started his literary work in high school when he published his first poems. In addition to poems, he wrote short stories ("Earth and Sea", 1950; "Slightly Promising Clouds", 1955; "Sep", 1960; "Conversation on Secrets", 1974), novels ("Diary of a German Soldier", 1962; "Arrival at the End of Summer," 1970; "Singer I and II", 1979), essays on literature and art (Dan među slikama, 1973). He was also known as a theatre critic and a well-known translator from German into Serbian, especially the works of Thomas Mann, Erich M. Remarque, Rainer Rilke, Bertolt Brecht.[4]

See also

References

  1. "New Zealand Slavonic Journal". School of Asian & European Languages & Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington. March 15, 1988 via Google Books.
  2. "Journal of Croatian Studies". Croatian Academy of America. March 15, 2000 via Google Books.
  3. 1 2 "Члан САНУ". archive.ph. December 21, 2012. Archived from the original on December 21, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  4. "Books by Boško Petrović (Author of Budenbrokovi)". www.goodreads.com.
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