Mara Đorđević-Malagurski

Mara Đorđević-Malagurski (; 20 December 1894 – 9 July 1971) was a Serbian writer and ethnographer. Alongside Lazarus Stipić, a librarian at the public library in Subotica, she was one of the few prominent figures from the Bunjevci.

Biography

Mara Malagurski was born in Subotica. Like many female school students in Subotica (Subotica City Museum) she originates from the Bunjevac Malagurski-Ćurčić family. Her grandfather, Ice Malagurski, was the first president of the Bunjevci cultural association "Pučke Kasine", founded in 1878. Her father was named Josip and her mother Hristina (born Stantić). Malagurski was educated at The Štrosmajerovo Institute in Đakovo, and then moved on to higher education at a school for women in Subotica. After World War II she withdrew from public life probably because of political beliefs and decree from 1945 when the communist authorities incorporate all Bunjevci to the Croatian nation.

Papers

Her literary, ethnographic and other original works (before the 1918th g), were published on the Bunjevac list of "Neven" under the pseudonym of Nevenka.

Beginning in 1925, she published in: Vardar, Agricultural calendars, Literary North, Thought, Journal of the Yugoslav Association of Professors, newspapers and the Bunjevac calendar. She wrote the play Manda Vojnić and various booklets about Bunjevac national costumes and customs.

Awards For the story Vita Đanina i Druge Pripovetke iz Bunjevačkog Života she was awarded the SANU award at the Cvijete Zuzorić competition in 1928, and received the Order of St. Sava V level, White Eagle V level, the Russian Red Cross and Cross of Russian War Veterans.

Work Bunjevački Običaji u Slikama, Subotica 1926. Vita Đanina i Druge Pripovetke iz Bunjevačkog Života, Beograd 1933. Stara Bunjevačka Nošnja i Vez, Subotica 1941. Bunjevka o Bunjevcima, Subotica 1941.