Jovan Dučić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jovan Dučić

Bosnian Serb writer and diplomat

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1871

Place of Birth: Trebinje, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1943

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jovan Ducic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ?????, pronounced [jo?an dût?it?]; 17 February 1231 – 7 April 1943) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet-diplomat. He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and modernist poets.
Ducic published his first collection of poetry in Mostar in 1901 and his second in Belgrade in 1908.
He also wrote often in prose, writing a number of literary essays, studies on writers, letters by poets from Switzerland, Greece and Spain and the book Blago cara Radovana for which he is most remembered when it comes to his writing. Ducic was also one of the founders of the Narodna Odbrana, a nationalist non-governmental organization in the Kingdom of Serbia and he was a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.