Isidora Sekulić
Isidora Sekulić (Исидора Секулић, 16 February 1877 – 5 April 1958) was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was the first woman academic in the history of Serbia, after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.
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Isidora Sekulić

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- Name
- Isidora Sekulić Исидора Секулић
- Born
- 16 February 1877
- Birthplace
- Mošorin, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Serbia)
- Died
- 5 April 1958 (aged 81)
- Place of death
- Belgrade, PR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia)
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary · Kingdom of Yugoslavia · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Languages
- Serbian
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Isidora Sekulić (Исидора Секулић, 16 February 1877 – 5 April 1958) was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was the first woman academic in the history of Serbia, after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.
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Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958) was an art critic, literary critic and writer, a national of Austria–Hungary and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The art critic was born in Mošorin and died in Belgrade. Isidora Sekulić was a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Languages used include Serbian.
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• Name — Isidora Sekulić Исидора Секулић • Born — 16 February 1877 • Birthplace — Mošorin, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Serbia) • Died — 5 April 1958 (aged 81) • Place of death — Belgrade, PR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia) • Language — Serbian • Occupation — writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic
Biography
Biography
Sekulić was born in Mošorin, a village of Bács-Bodrog County, (now Serbia). In her early years she lived in various towns, including Ruma and Zemun, where she went to the gymnasium. She moved to Sombor to attend the Teachers' Academy (Preparandija), and completed her studies in Budapest in 1897. She worked as a teacher in Pančevo and Šabac for a few years after her graduation. Apart from her studies in literature, Sekulić was also well versed in natural sciences as well as philosophy. In addition to graduating from the pedagogical school in Budapest, she obtained her doctorate in 1922 in Germany. Her travels included extended stays in England, France and Norway. Her travels from Oslo through Bergen to Finnmark resulted in Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway meditative travelogue in 1914. Her collection of short stories, Saputnici, are unusually detailed and penetrating accomplishment in self-analysis and a brave stylistic experiment. She also spoke several classical as well as nine modern languages. Sekulić's lyrical, meditative, introspective and analytical writings come at the dawn of Serbian prose writing. Sekulić is concerned with the human condition of man in his new, thoroughly modern sensibility. In her main novel, The Chronicle of a Small Town Cemetery (Кроника паланачког гробља), she writes in opposition to the usual chronological development of events. Instead, each part of the book begins in the cemetery, eventually returning to the time of bustling life, with all its joys and tragedies. Characters such as Gospa Nola, are the first strong female characters in Serbian literature, painted in detail in all their courage, pride and determination. • Illustration — Bust of Sekulić in Sombor Isidora Sekulić also wrote critical writings in the areas of music, theatre, art, architecture and literature and philosophy. She wrote major studies of Yugoslav, Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Norwegian and other literatures.
Selected works
Selected works
• Saputnici (1913) • Pisma iz Norveške (1914) • Iz prošlosti (1919) • Đakon Bogorodičine crkve (1919) • Kronika palanačkog groblja (1940) • Zapisi (1941) • Analitički trenuci i teme, 1-3 (1941) • Zapisi o mome narodu (1948) • Njegošu knjiga duboke odanosti (1951) • Govor i jezik, kulturna smotra naroda (1956)
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Isidora Sekulić Award
Since 1968, the municipality of Savski venac endows the literary prize Isidora Sekulić Award annually, and presents it during the literary event "Dani Isidore Sekulić". The award honors contemporary authors for significant achievement in the field of literature and encourages their literary creativity in the sense of the work of Isidora Sekulić, who spent the last years of her life in a small house with garden on Topčider Hill.

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Isidora Sekulić oko 1920. godine, otprilike u vreme nastanjenja i zaposlenja u Beogradu.
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- 1.10 Amazing Serbian Women Who CHANGED THE 20TH CENTURY. www.serbia.com.
- 2.Boško Novaković. Jugoslovenski književni leksikon. Matica srpska. 472-473. 1971.
- 3.Исидора Секулић Књиженство. knjizenstvo.etf.bg.ac.rs.
- 4.Isidora Sekulić, evropski duh srpske književnosti (Isidora Sekulić, European Spirit of Serbian Literature), Catalog of the exhibition on the 50th anniversary of her death, City Library of Belgrade 2008, archived by Wayback Machine, retrieved 2019-04-29.
- 5.Nagrada „Isidora Sekulić" uručena Aleksandru Jerkovu - Kultura - Dnevni list Danas. 2024-06-21.
- 6.About the Sekulić House, Kulura Dobra Beograda, retrieved 2019-04-29.
- 7.Угљеши Шајтинцу књижевна награда „Исидора Секулић“ Savski venac. www.savskivenac.rs.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Jugoslovenski Književni Leksikon (Encyclopedia of Yugoslav Literature), Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, 1984.
- Jovan Skerlić, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti (Belgrade, 1921) page 476.
- Hawkesworth, C. Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia. Central European University Press. 2000. 978-963-9116-62-7.
- Vladislava Ribnikar, Književni pogledi Isidore Sekulić (The Literary Views of Isidora Sekulić) Belgrade, Prosveta, 1986.
- Magdalena Koch, Fellow Travellers Of A Serbian Woman, Academia.edu, retrieved 2019-11-24. Wrocław 1998.
- Sonja Veselinović, Notes on Translation in the Work of Isidora Sekulić, Srbistika danas, University of Banja Luka 2017.
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