Woman Writters

Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873 – 1957) was the first Croatian professional woman journalist, political reporter, popular writer and feminist. She wrote her first literary works while at the Girls’ Secondary School in Zagreb. Her engagement in journalism had her parents cut her education short and force her to marry. She fled from her abusive husband […]

Maria Konopnicka was born in Suwaľki on 23 May 1842. When at the Boarding School for Girls run by the Nuns of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Warsaw (1855-1856), Konopnicka met the writer Eliza Orzeszkowa with whom she remained friends until her death. At the age of 20 she married the landowner Jaroslaw

Ljubka Šorli, married BRATUŽ (1910-1993), was forced to leave her home as a child due to the battles of the Isonzo, which took place near her home. After the war she went to the primary and citizen school in her hometown of Tolmin, and later to music school and school of commerce in Gorizia. Even

LILl NOVY (1885 -1958) was the daughter of Guido Haumeder, an Austrian nobleman, and Ludovika Ahačič, who was born to a rich Slovenian bourgeois family. When her family moved from Graz to Ljubljana, she received private schooling in modern and classical languages. Already before she married a Czech officer she wrote poetry in German and

Jelena Dimitrijević (1862-1945) was born in the Principality of Serbia, post Ottoman Empire, and died in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She spent most of her long life in Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She was 16 when Serbia gained its independence at the Congress of Berlin, after almost 500 years under the Ottoman

Ivana Mažuranić was born on 18 April 1874 in Ogulin. Her was mother Henrietta (née Bernath) from a Varaždin family, while her father Vladimir was the son of the first Croatian “commoner” ban (Viceroy) Ivan Mažuranić. During her childhood, Ivana’s family moved several times: to Karlovac, Jastrebarsko and Zagreb, where she spent most of her childhood and adolescence. Her

Isidora Sekulić (1877 – 1958) was born in Vojvodina, as a citizen of the former Austro – Hungarian Empire. She studied in Budapest, and graduated in mathematics and natural sciences. She worked as a teacher of mathematics in Pančevo, Šabac, Skoplje and Belgrade. Due to her recurring health problems (she suffered from tuberculosis), she often

Elisaveta Bagryana (Bulgarian: Елисавета Багряна) (16 April, 1893 – 23 March, 1991), born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva (Bulgarian: Елисавета Любомирова Белчева), was a Bulgarian poet who wrote her first verses in 1907–1908. Sheis considered one of the “first lady of Bulgarian women’s literature”. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Between 1910 and 1911 she taught in the

DivnaVeković was born in Berane at the end of the 19th century, in 1886 in the village of Lužac, the youngest of seven children. She finished elementary school in her hometown, at the Đurđevi stupovi monastery, after which she went to Skopje for further education. As she produced enviable results during her schooling she became

Desanka Maksimović (16 May 1898 – 11 February 1993) was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade. Within a few years, her poems appeared in the Serbian Literary Herald, Belgrade’s most influential literary publication. In 1925, Maksimović earned a French Government scholarship for a