Miloš Crnjanski

Miloš Crnjanski (, ; 26 October 1893 – 30 November 1977) was a Serbian writer and poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, journalist and a diplomat.

Biography Crnjanski was born in Csongrád (modern-day Hungary), to an impoverished family which moved in 1896 to Temesvár (modern-day Timișoara, Romania). He completed the elementary school in Pancsova (today Pančevo, Serbia), and Grammar school in Temesvár. Then he started attending the export academy in Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) in 1912, and in the autumn of the following year he started studying mathematics and philosophy in Vienna. Crnjanski convalesced in a Vienna war hospital, although just before the end of the war he was sent to the Italian front. After the war, he started studying comparative literature at the University of Belgrade.

After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1922,

He is considered to be a classic of the Serbian literature by the scholars as well as the public.

Works

Crnjanski's first books portrayed the futility of war. He laid the foundations of the early avant-garde movement in Serbian literature, as exemplified by his 1920 Objašnjenje Sumatre (The Explanation of Sumatra); Chosen verses (1954) Lament over Belgrade (1965);

Tales Stories about men (1924)

Novels The Journal of Carnojevic (Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću, 1921) Migrations (Seobe, 1929) Second book of Migrations (Seobe, knjiga druga, 1962) Kod Hiperborejaca (1965) Kap španske krvi (1970) A Novel of London (Roman o Londonu, 1971) Suzni krokodil (unfinished) Podzemni klub (questionable)

Dramas Masks (1918) Doss-house (1958) Nikola Tesla

Itineraries Ljubav u Toskani (1930) Knjiga o Nemačkoj (1931) Pisma iz Pariza U zemlji toreadora i sunca

Other Sveta Vojvodina (1919) Antologija Kineske lirike, anthology (1923) Naše plaže na Jadranu (1927) Boka Kotorska – Der golf von Kotor (1928) Pesme starog Japana, anthology (1928) Sveti Sava (1934) Sabrana dela (1966) Stražilovo, poem (1973) Knjiga o Mikelanđelu, posthumous (1981) Embahade, posthumous (1985) Naša nebesa

Lost works Son of Don Kihot, novel O ljubavi, drama Gundulić, drama Prokleti knez, drama Juhahaha, comedy inspired by Peter I of Serbia The Shoemakers of London Some of the works were destroyed by the author himself, while other manuscripts of the novel Son of Don Kihot was lost on the way to the print house. Some of his works are said to have been stolen in London. He also wrote many essays, articles, and other texts.

Migrations has been translated into English (Harvill 1994, ), but with the author's name transliterated as "Milos Tsernianski". Crnjanski wrote about forty texts about theater. Crnjanski also founded the newspaper Putevi, with Marko Ristić (1922), and Ideje, a political paper (1934). He also published two books on eastern nations poetry anthology.

A Novel of London has been translated to English by Will Firth about 50 years after its original appearance in Serbian (Diálogos 2020, ).