Jara Ribnikar

Jara Ribnikar (; born Jaroslava Hájková; 23 August 1912 – 30 April 2007) was a Yugoslavian and Serbian writer, translator, partisan fighter and politician. She was the second wife of Vladislav S. Ribnikar, journalist and editor-in-chief of Politika, member of the prominent Ribnikar family. She wrote novels, memoires, short stories and poems. Jara Ribnikar was vice-president of the Serbian Literary Guild, president of Serbian (1966–1980) and Yugoslavian PEN Centres and member of the Council of Peoples of the Federal People's Assembly.

Biography Ribnikar was born Jaroslava Hájková in Hradec Králové in Bohemia, her father was pianist and composer Emil Hájek. The family moved to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, when Ribnikar was a child. Between 1979 and 1991, she published five volumes of memoirs.

In the 1990s, Ribnikar became proponent of the transcendental meditation and supported pro-Milošević party Yugoslav Left. Ribnikar died in Belgrade's Dragiša Mišović Hospital on 30 April 2007.

Works Poem collections Idu dani, noći, dani, 1952

Novels Nedovršeni krug, 1954 Zašto vam je unakaženo lice, 1956 Bakaruša, 1961 Pobeda i poraz, 1963 Ti, 1963 Ja, ti, mi, 1967 Jan Nepomucki, 1969 Priviđenja, 1976 Kratko beogradsko proleće, 1977 Porodične priče, 1995 Roman o T. M., 1998 Skretnica, 2001

Short story collections Devetog dana, 1953 Largo, 1957 Među nama, 1973 Ženske ljubavne priče, 1997

Memoirs Život i priča I–V, 1979–1995 Dete iz Hradeca, 1990