Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov

Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov (; ; 17 July 1884 – 27 May 1933) was a Serbian and Bulgarian textile worker, labour activist, newspaper editor and the first Serbian proletarian poet.

Biography

Born on 17 July 1884 in the village of Saranovo near Rača in central Serbia, Ljubica Ivošević was the youngest child of Milovan and Milica Ivošević. When she was 16, she went to Smederevska Palanka with one of her brothers as a textile worker and joined the labor movement (Opšte zanatlijsko radničko društvo or General Artisan Workers Society). They moved to Sofia in 1904, where she began to work in a luxury sewing attire shop, and became a manager there. She published her poems in Bulgarian and Serbian left-wing newspapers. From 1909 to 1912, she was the editor of the Bulgarian newspaper Шивашки работник ("Tailoring Worker"). From 1914, she became a member of the Central Women's Committee of the Bulgarian Narrow Socialists. In 1920, she was a Narrow Socialists envoy to the Yugoslav Communist Party Congress in Belgrade. Later they moved to the Soviet Union.