Marko Vešović

Marko Vešović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Вешовић; 14 March 1945 – 17 August 2023) was a Bosnian and Montenegrin poet, writer, essayist, literary critic and translator.

Biography Born in March 1945 in the village of Pape near Bijelo Polje in Montenegro, Vešović attended high school in Bijelo Polje. He moved to Sarajevo for university studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, and then to Belgrade for postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology. He served as a teacher at the Sarajevo secondary traffic school and at the Pero Kosorić high school.

Vešović worked as assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo from 1976 till 1986, then worked as an editor at the Veselin Masleša publishing house in Sarajevo. In 1992 he returned to the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo.

At the very beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vešović was accused by the media linked to Karadžić's SDS to be a traitor to the Serbian people. Vešović replied that Karadžić's crimes make people's minds stop and people's mouths turn to stone. He added: "admittedly, I am a Montenegrin, but whenever someone counts me as a Serb so that they can spit on me, I temporarily become a Serb as well".