LITERATURE
Serbian literature in Vojvodina has got the characteristics of secular and modern literature in the eighteenth century when Dositej Obradovic, great educator and the first minister of education of Serbia appeared.
In the nineteenth century the greatest Serbian writers wrote in Vojvodina. The greatest playwrights of that period are Jovan Sterija Popovic and Kosta Trifkovic. Branko Radicevic is the first modern poet in the style of European poetry, while Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj is a founder of poetry for children. Among outstanding persons of this century literature are poets Djura Jaksic and Laza Kostic, as well as prose writers Jakov Ignjatovic and Stevan Sremac.
The beginning of modern Serbian literature in the twentieth century was marked by the names of writers of European provenance such as Milos Crnjanski, Veljko Petrovic, Isidora Sekulic, Anica Savic Rebac, Todor Manojlovic. In the second half of this century, among the most outstanding representatives of the Serbian literature are Bosko Petrovic, Danilo Kis, Borislav Mihajlovic Mihiz, Aleksandar Tisma, poets Vasko Popa, Miroslav Antic, as well as theoreticians and historians Mladen Leskovac, Zivan Milisavljevic, Zivojin Boskov and Dimitrije Vucenov.
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