WRITER

Aleksa Šantić

1868 - 1924

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Aleksa Šantić (Serbian Cyrillic: Алекса Шантић, pronounced [ǎleksa ʃǎ:ntitɕ] (); 27 May 1868 – 2 February 1924) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovina, the growing national awareness of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Serbs, social injustice, nostalgic love, and the unity of the South Slavs. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zora (1896–1901). Šantić was one of the leading persons of Serbian literary and national movement in Mostar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksa Šantić is the 2,056th most popular writer (down from 1,699th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 58th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksa Šantić ranks 2,056 out of 7,302. Before him are Uri Orlev, Eutychius of Alexandria, Vsevolod Garshin, Bernard Malamud, Eugene Nida, and Nodar Dumbadze. After him are Tom Wolfe, William of Moerbeke, Maria Konopnicka, Rhonda Byrne, Johann Karl August Musäus, and James E. Gunn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Aleksa Šantić ranks 84. Before him are José Félix Uriburu, Keisuke Okada, Dawid Janowski, Venceslau Brás, Mary Parker Follett, and Arturo Alessandri. After him are George Arliss, Stanisław Przybyszewski, George Ellery Hale, Alice Keppel, La Belle Otero, and Jaan Tõnisson. Among people deceased in 1924, Aleksa Šantić ranks 42. Before him are Arne Garborg, Théodore Dubois, Valery Bryusov, Jacques de Morgan, Roland Bonaparte, and Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza. After him are Matsukata Masayoshi, Louis Delluc, Eugenius Warming, Joseph Henry Blackburne, F. H. Bradley, and Florence Harding.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aleksa Šantić ranks 67 out of 375. Before him are Džemal Bijedić (1917), Jovan Dučić (1871), Kemal Monteno (1948), Edin Džeko (1986), Nebojša Radmanović (1949), and Matrakçı Nasuh (1480). After him are Borjana Krišto (1961), Branko Stanković (1921), Dragan Đokanović (1958), Stephen I, Ban of Bosnia (1242), Željka Cvijanović (1967), and Dušan Bajević (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aleksa Šantić ranks 6. Before him are Ivo Andrić (1892), Meša Selimović (1910), Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), and Jovan Dučić (1871). After him are Mak Dizdar (1917), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Staka Skenderova (1828).

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