Janko Veselinović Јанко Веселиновић
Born	(1862-05-13)13 May 1862 Salaš Crnobarski, Principality of Serbia
Died	26 June 1905(1905-06-26) (aged 43) Glogovac, Bogatić, Kingdom of Serbia
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, dramatist
Literary movement	Literary realism

Janko Veselinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Веселиновић, pronounced [ˌjâːŋko ʋeseˈlǐːnoʋit͜ɕ]; 13 May 1862 – 26 June 1905) was a Serbian writer.

Biography

Janko Veselinović was born in Crnobarski Salaši on 1 May 1862 in Eastern Orthodox priestly family.^[1] He completed elementary school in Šabac in 1878 and enrolled into teacher's college in Belgrade from which he dropped out.^[1] He worked as a teacher between 1880 and 1882 as well as between 1886 and 1889.^[1] From 1893 he worked as an assistant for the Srpske novine newspaper editor.^[1] As an enemy of the regime he lost his job in 1899–1900 and he was arrested on three separate occasions, in 1888, 1899 and 1903.^[1] He died on 19 June 1905.^[1]

Works

• Pastoral: Stories from Rural Life (Сељанка: приповетке из сеоског живота), novel 1888
• Pictures of Rural Life (Слике из сеоског живота), story, 2 volumes, 1886–88
• Wild Flowers (Пољско цвеће), story, 1890–1891
• Paradise of the Soul (Рајске душе), story, 1893
• Stari poznavitsi (Стари познавици), story, 1891–96
• Hajduk Stanko (Хајдук Станко), novel, 1896
• Fighters (Борци), stories
• Letters from the Village (Писма са села), stories
• Complete works (Целокупна дела) 9 volumes
• The Flute Player, story
• Poteru, play (in collaboration with Čiča Ilija Stanojević), 1895

References

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• The factual material for the Wikipedia biography of Janko Veselinović (writer) is adapted from the Serbian of Jovan Skerlić's Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / A History of New Serbian Literature (Belgrade 1914, 1921), pages 384–390.
• Also, adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: Јанко Веселиновић
• Gerda Baudisch: The patriarchal village in the narrative work of Janko M. Veselinović (Das patriarchale Dorf im Erzählwerk von Janko M. Veselinović), Munich, 1969