Velko Petrovich ( Serb. Veљko Petrovi ; February 4, 1884 , Sombor , Vojvodina , Austria-Hungary - July 27, 1967 , Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) - Serbian writer , short story , poet , art critic , literary critic , theorist , art historian. Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
| Velko Petrovich | |
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| Serb. Veљko Petroviћ | |
 Velko Petrovich in 1905 | |
| Date of Birth | February 4, 1884 |
| Place of Birth | Sombor , Vojvodina , Austria-Hungary |
| Date of death | July 27, 1967 (83 years old) |
| Place of death | Belgrade , SFRY |
| Citizenship |     SFRY |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet , literary critic , art critic , literary critic |
| Language of Works | Serbian |
| Awards | [d] ( 1967 ) |
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Biography
Born in the family of an Orthodox priest . After graduation, he studied law at the University of Budapest .
He took an active part in the national movement in Hungarian Serbia, edited a number of Serbian national revolutionary publications. In 1906-1907 he was co-editor of the Croatian - Serbian socio-political magazine "Kroacija" ("Croatia"), based in Budapest . Collaborated with several periodicals in Zagreb and Sarajevo .
The Austrian authorities, given his nationalist views, forced him to move to Belgrade , where he participated as a war correspondent in the Balkan wars , and later in the First World War . He wrote poetry.
After the end of World War II, he worked at the Ministry of Education.
Actively involved in the affairs of culture and education.
Director of the National Museum in Belgrade (1944–1962). Member of the Serbian Literary Association. Chairman of the Serbian Mother .
Creativity
How the poet made his debut in 1903. Since 1905, he began to publish poetry, short stories, and literary articles.
For the first time he attracted the attention of literary critics with his patriotic poetry, imbued with nationalist and anti-Austrian tendencies, "Rodolyubskaya song" ("Rodolyubiva pesme", 1912) and "On the threshold" ("To Prague", 1914).
The pre-war collections of his poems abruptly break with the then prevailing poetry of modernism .
After the First World War, Petrovich appeared almost exclusively as the author of small realistic short stories from the life of the petty bourgeoisie of Vojvodina and Serbia. In the first collections of his short stories (“Bunya and Friends from Ravangrad”, 1921, “Varlivo Proletche”, 1921, “Pomerania Savesti”, 1922, etc.), he markedly reflected the influence of I. Turgenev and sentimental and idyllic Serbian literary realism .
In the future, with the growing economic crisis, in the work of Petrovich more and more space was occupied by the problems of the "sick soul", a man of the modern capitalist city. Beginning in 1924 (Temptation, 1924, Pripovetka, 1925, etc.), he created a new style for Serbian literature, standing closest to the early works of F. Dostoevsky .
The main attention of the writer is focused on psychological analysis, on the problems of life of sick and broken youth who have become disillusioned with baseless intelligentsia, etc. The mastery of style, sometimes close to impressionistic prose, makes Petrovich's novels an outstanding phenomenon in Serbian literature.
Basically, he wrote about Vojvodina, its atmosphere and people, the author of many literary and art criticism articles and studies in the field of literature and fine art in general, especially about Voivodina painting of the 18th and 19th centuries, on the history of Yugoslav culture.
He was awarded the prize of the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia.
Literature
- Encyclopedic literary dictionary / V. M. Kozhevnikov, P. A. Nikolaev. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987.
- Brief literary encyclopedia / A. A. Surkov. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1968 .-- T. 5.