Lazar Vučković

Lazar Vučković (1937 – 26 August 1966) was a Serbian and Yugoslav poet. Along with poets and writers Petar Šarić, Vukašin Filipović, Darinka Jevrić, Radosav Stojanović and Vladan Virijević, he is considered one of the leading 20th-century Serbian writers from Kosovo and Metohija.

Biography He grew up in Gornje Selo, near Sredska, on the slopes of the Šar Mountains, where he finished elementary school. He studied high school in Ferizaj. He was a journalist and reporter for the "Jedinstvo" newspaper in Priština. He was one of the first Serbian post-war poets in Kosovo and Metohija. He also wrote stories and poeticized reports for the newspaper Jedinstvo. He published his first works in Jedinstvo and the magazines Stremljenja, Omladini, Mladosti, Susretima, Jeta e re, Rilindja, Odjek.

Vučković drowned in Lake Ohrid

In September 1969, a bust was unveiled in his hometown of Gornje Selo, in the parish of Sredac, and where the first Poetry Meetings "Lazar Vučković" were held.

On Christmas 2014, a bust was stolen from the monument to Lazar Vučković which had been erected by the staff of the newspaper Jedinstvo at the cemetery in Gornje Selo, the poet's birthplace.

Works Touch of Summer, poetry (together with Radoslav Zlatanović and Božidar Milidragović), Jedinstvo, Priština, 1962 The Lost Sea, poetry, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1966 Vjersha ("Verses"), poetry (in Albanian, together with Rade Nikolić and Radoslav Zlatanović), Rilindja, Priština, 1966 Pesme ("Poetry": collected poems), Jedinstvo, Priština, 1976 Proza ("Prose": collected stories, reports and criticism), Jedinstvo, Priština, 1980 Pesme ("Poems": selected poetry with a critical discussion by Prof. Dr. Novica Petković), BIGZ - Jedinstvo, Belgrade - Priština, 1986 A survey of modern poetry from Kosovo (1988) Oluja i dom: izabrane pesme (1997)

Literature Radomir Ivanović: Književno stvaralaštvo Kosova na srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Zajednica naučnih ustanova Kosova, Priština, 1971 / Радомир Ивановић: Књижевно стваралаштво Косова на српскохрватском језику, Заједница научних установа Косова, Приштина, 1971 Radomir Ivanović: "Believer of Poetry", preface to the book Lazar Vučković: Poetry, Jedinstvo, Priština, 1976 / Радомир Ивановић: Верник поезије, предговор књизи Лазар Вучковић: „Поезија“, Јединство, Приштина, 1976 Novica Petković: "Poetry handful of Lazar Vučković", preface to the book Lazar Vucković: Poems, BIGZ - Jedinstvo, Belgrade - Priština, 1986 / Новица Петковић: "Песничка прегршт Лазара Вучковића", поговор књизи Лазар Вучковић: Песме, БИГЗ - Јединство, Београд - Приштина, 1986. Prose (collected stories, reports and criticism), Jedinstvo, Priština, 1977. Poems (selected poetry with a critical discussion by Prof. Dr. Novica Petković), BIGZ - Jedinstvo, Belgrade - Priština, 1986.