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Jovan Dučić

1871 - 1943

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Jovan Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Дучић, pronounced [jǒʋan dûtʃitɕ]; 15 February 1872 – 7 April 1943) was a Serb poet-diplomat and academic. He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets. Dučić published his first collection of poetry in Mostar in 1901 and his second in Belgrade in 1908. He also wrote often in prose, writing a number of literary essays, studies on writers, letters by poets from Switzerland, Greece and Spain and the book Blago cara Radovana for which he is most remembered when it comes to his writing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jovan Dučić is the 1,990th most popular writer (down from 1,879th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 65th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jovan Dučić ranks 1,990 out of 7,302Before him are Augustin Barruel, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Philemon, Virginia Henderson, and Jacques Collin de Plancy. After him are Jean-Dominique Bauby, Uhwudong, Juan Donoso Cortés, Frances Harper, Walter Tevis, and Paul Morand.

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Among people born in 1871, Jovan Dučić ranks 52Before him are Fritz Hofmann, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Guillermo Kahlo, John Sloan, Fedor Tokarev, and Erich von Tschermak. After him are Giuseppe Motta, Mariano Fortuny, Ovide Decroly, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Hermann Abert, and Cesare Mori. Among people deceased in 1943, Jovan Dučić ranks 77Before him are Hanns Heinz Ewers, Senjūrō Hayashi, Lin Sen, Wilhelm Kube, Charlotte Salomon, and Fethi Okyar. After him are Yekaterina Budanova, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Edsel Ford, Anathon Aall, Aspazija, and Frank Nitti.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jovan Dučić ranks 62 out of 375Before him are Branko Ćopić (1915), Petar Kočić (1877), Vaso Čubrilović (1897), Željko Bebek (1945), Andrija Artuković (1899), and Džemal Bijedić (1917). After him are Kemal Monteno (1948), Edin Džeko (1986), Nebojša Radmanović (1949), Matrakçı Nasuh (1480), Aleksa Šantić (1868), and Borjana Krišto (1961).

Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jovan Dučić ranks 5Before him are Ivo Andrić (1892), Meša Selimović (1910), Branko Ćopić (1915), and Petar Kočić (1877). After him are Aleksa Šantić (1868), Mak Dizdar (1917), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Staka Skenderova (1828).