Isidora Sekulić

Isidora Sekulić (, 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.

Biography Sekulić was born in Mošorin, a village of Bács-Bodrog County, (now Serbia).

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)

Isidora Sekulić Award Since 1968, the municipality of Savski venac endows the literary prize Isidora Sekulić Award annually, honoring contemporary authors for significant achievement in the field of literature, and encouraging 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.