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Petar Kocic |
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29th June 1877 |
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Stricici, Bosnia and Hercegovina |
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Petar KoÄić (Cyrillic - Петар Кочић) (1877 — 1916) was Serbian poet and writer.
Like Borisav Stanković who was self-made and successful poet of Slavic South, like Ivo Ćipiko who was poet of seaside - KoÄić was poet of Bosnian mountains and fresh life of his area.
He was born in StriÄići, a village near Banja Luka. He attended primary school in Gomjenica Monastery, during which time his mother died and his father then became a priest. He started his gimnasium education in Sarajevo, but because he expressed his Serbian nationality, he was expelled from 3th grade and went to Belgrade, finishing gimnasium there. He studied Philosophy in Vienna. In 1904 he came back to Serbia, and for a short while he was a teacher in Skopje. Two years later he lived in Sarajevo as a clerk of publishing company "Prosveta", but after a while he was fired for taking a part in a worker's strike, and banished to Banja Luka.
Before the Austrian occupation of Bosnia he founded a magazine "Fatherland", in Banja Luka, and formed his political group which advocated a fight against Austria, and especially a fierce struggle against the remains of feudal slavery. As a national and social revolutionary KoÄić was favoured among peasants and advanced youth, and as such he was elected as a member of Bosanski sabor (Bosnian parliament) in Sarajevo. Austria recognized Petar KoÄić as serious enemy, so they prosecuted and arrested him. Before World War I he started to express a nervous breakdown, so he was brought to Belgrade for treatment. He died in Belgradian mental hospital during Austrian occupation. In Bosnia, he was the most brave motivator of national pride, and preacher of social justice.
KoÄić wrote three collections of tales named From Mountain, and Under The Mountain (С планине и иÑпод планине), Howls From Zmijanje (Јауци Ñа Змијања), and two political-social satires: Badger on Tribunal (Јазавац пред Ñудом) and Trials (Суданија), first in a form of play, and second in a form of dialogue.
(according to edition of "The History of Yugoslav Literature" - "ИÑторија југоÑл. књижевноÑти", by ÃorÄ‘e AnÄ‘elić, Belgrade, 1938)
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