Skender Kulenović

Skender Kulenović (Cyrillic Скендер Куленовић; born September 2, 1910 in Bosanski Petrovac, Austria - Hungary, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, † January 25, 1978 in Belgrade, Serbia today ) was a Yugoslav poet.

Skender attended primary school in his native town. His family has slipped at once into poverty, probably because of the " agrarian reform." That's why he moved to Travnik, his mother's birthplace. There he finished the Jesuit high school, and even in the third grade, he wrote a collection of sonnets called Ocvale primule ( " withered primrose "). After completing high school he studied law at the University of Zagreb, and came into the city with circles of social literature in touch.

During the Second World War, he took part in the fight against the Germans and the Ustasha. At this time, as well as later, he became politically active as a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

His most famous song Stojanka majka Knežopoljka ( mother Stojanka lament ), tells of the massacre of civilians in Kozaračko Mountains, which was carried out there by the Germans and the Ustasha.

• Author
• Poetry
• Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Yugoslav
• Born 1910
• Died in 1978
• Man