He was a monk at the Hilandar Monastery and a contemporary of St. Sava. In fact, he accompanied St. Sava when the latter visited the Holy Land. He was much respected by the royal court in Raška, as well as by the monks on the Holy Mount, better known as Mount Athos. Teodor's account of his troubles, recorded on the pages of John Exarch's Hexameron (Šestodnev), which Teodor was copying at Domentijan's request, contains many references concerning Domentijan and his character.

Hieromonk Domentijan started his monastic life in Sava's monastery Žiča. Undoubtedly an exemplary monk, he was subsequently sent by the court to join Sava in Hilandar. It was there that Sava asked Domentijan to accompany him on his second pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Domentijan's biography of St. Sava, written c. 1253 (and an earlier one of St. Simeon Nemanja) was expressly written by order of the royal court of Uroš I of Raška, seven years after Sava's death. It is a work giving an account of St. Sava's life, yet it is also an apotheosis of monasticism. Domentijan's style is characterized by fluent narration, panegyric diction, abundance of theological and mystical elements with an emphasis on a spiritual and clearly monastic point of view. Domentijan wrote it in Karyes (Athos), capital of the Mount Athos monastic community, in the kellion (cell) built by Saint Sava.

For his biography of St. Simeon, Domentijan used material from works of previous authors. He drew freely from Stefan the First-Crowned's biography of Stefan Nemanja; one third of his own biography of St. Sava; and in the Panegyric to St. Simon, he used a few lines from Ilarion's Panegyric to St. Vladimir.

It may be concluded that Domentijan was essentially a hymnologist who wrote biographies to two Serbian saints but, in fact, glorified monasticism and Christianity.

As a Serbian monk, he was also a chronicler, active in court and Church politics, holding the office during the heyday of the Nemanjić dynasty-era; he wrote many hagiographies and regiographies which are considered part of the most notable medieval Serbian literature. He was proclaimed Saint Danilo II (Свети Данило II) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and is celebrated on the same day as Saint Ignatius of Antioch on 2 January. Born around 1270, his given name is not recorded, only that he belonged to a Serbian noble family. He was endowed with a fine intellect and a noble disposition; he had received an excellent education at the hands of the most learned men in Medieval Serbia and in Byzantium. Danilo wrote biographies of Serbian medieval kings and archbishops, including the biography of Jelena, the wife of King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (1276–1282). His monumental work is referred to in the poetry of Serbian folklore as knjige starostavne (the ancient books) and knjige carostavne (the royal books). As a result of his work, many historical details concerning both the rulers of medieval Serbia and the members of the Nemanjić dynasty have been preserved.

Veljko Petrović was born in Sombor. His father became an Eastern Orthodox monk, Gerasim Petrović, after his wife died. After graduating from high school in his home town, Veljko went to Budapest to study law. From 1906 to 1907 he was co-editor of Croatia, a Croatian-Serbian magazine for social, political and economical studies, founded in Budapest. Because of his nationalistic attitude he was forced to move to Belgrade, where he participated as a war correspondent in both Balkan Wars and World War I, and wrote poetry. Between the wars he was active in cultural and educational affairs and continued to be so until his death in Belgrade in 1967.
He first came to the attention of literary critics for his patriotic poetry, Rodoljubive pesme (Patriotic Poems, 1912) and Na pragu (On the Threshold, 1914). Afterwards, he turned to the short story and remained in the genre. His patriotic poetry avoids bombastic phrases and inflated pathos; it is rather a somber, realistic appraisal of his country and its past and a declaration of sincere, unconspicuous love for it. In his numerous stories he depicts, for the most part the life of the Serbs in Vojvodina, first under the multi-national Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later, part of the triune Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, an unlikely confederacy of Slav states that went on to change its name again to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and again after World War II when the communist usurper took over. Petrović's colorful description of the Vojvodina peasants and small-town folk offer a rich thematic canvas of a teeming life, replete with national, social, and moral problems. He has also written love stories and many stories for children.

With Mileta Jakšić, according to critic Jovan Skerlić, he is considered to be one of the leading poets of Post-Modernism in Serbian literature (only after being influenced by modernism in his youth). Veljko wrote mostly about Vojvodina (like Mileta Jakšić) its ambience and people. His many functions and memberships of various boards and committees included the chairmanship of Novi Sad's Matica srpska, from 1953 to 1956, followed by his election as the institution's lifelong president. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and president of Srpska knjizevna zadruga in Belgrade. From 1944 until his retirement in 1962, he was the director of the National Museum, Belgrade. His collection of short stories are: Varljivo Prolece (Changing Spring, 1921); Bunja i drugi iz Ravangrada (Bunja and Others from Ravangrad, 1921); Pomerene savest (Demented Consciences, 1922); Iskusenja (Temptations, 1924); Izdanci iz zapaljena grma (Shoots from a Burning Stump, 1932); and Prepelica u ruci (A Quail in the Hand, 1948). He is best remembered, however, for Dah (Breath). He was the author of numerous magazine articles and studies on literature and art. He was one of the few to receive the coveted Yugoslav Writer's Association award.

Borislav Pekić spent his childhood in different cities of Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia. He graduated from high school in 1945 in Belgrade and shortly afterwards was arrested[3] with the accusation of belonging to the secret association "Yugoslav Democratic Youth" and sentenced to fifteen years of prison. During the time in prison he conceived many of the ideas later developed in his major novels. He was released after five years and in 1953 began studying experimental psychology at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, although he never earned a degree.

In 1958 he married Ljiljana Glišić, the niece of Milan Stojadinović, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935–1939) and a year later their daughter Aleksandra was born. 1958 marked also the year when Pekić wrote his first of over twenty original film scripts for the major film studios in Yugoslavia, among which Dan četrnaesti ("The Fourteenth Day") represented Yugoslavia at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.

For years Pekić had been working on several novels and when the first of them, Vreme čuda (1965), came out, it caught the attention of a wide reading audience as well as the critics. In 1976 it was published in English by Brace Harcourt in New York as The Time of Miracles. It was also translated into French in 1986, Polish in 1986, Romanian in 1987, Italian in 2004, and Greek in 2007. Pekić's first novel clearly announced two of the most important characteristics of his work: sharp anti-dogmatism and constant scepticism regarding any possible 'progress' mankind has achieved over the course of history.

During the 1968–1969 period, Pekić was one of the editors of Književne novine literary magazine. In 1970 his second novel, Hodočašće Arsenija Njegovana (The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan) was published, in which an echo of the students protests of 1968 in Yugoslavia can be found. Despite his ideological distance from the mainstream opposition movements, the new political climate further complicated his relationship with the authorities, who refused him a passport for some time. The novel, nevertheless, won the NIN award for the best Yugoslav novel of the year. An English translation The Houses of Belgrade appeared in 1978 and it was later published in Polish, Czech and Romanian.

Ljubomir was born in Brankovina, Valjevo, Principality of Serbia, to father Prota Mateja Nenadović, of the affluent Nenadović family. His father was Serbian archpriest, writer and leader in the First Serbian Uprising; he was appointed Prime Minister 27 Aug 1805 - Jan 1807 by President Karađorđe. Ljubomir's uncle Sima and his grandfather's brother Jakov also fought in the Serbian Revolution, and served the Serbian revolutionary government. His grandfather was Aleksa Nenadović (1749-1804), one of the first victims of the Slaughter of the Dukes on the 31st of January 1804.
He graduated at gymnasium in Belgrade and began to attend lyceum. In period between 1844 and 1848 he studied at universities in Prague, Berlin and Heidelberg. After he returned to Serbia in 1848 he became professor at lyceum.[1] During this period he befriended Petar II Petrović-Njegoš and years later wrote in his Pisma iz Italije (Letter from Italy) the experience of traveling with Njegoš in Italy and observing him as a ruler at the court in Cetinje. His narrative on Njegoš was published some twenty and forty years after Njegoš's death (1851).

In 1850 Nenadović founded the literary review Šumadinka (Serbian Cyrillic: Шумадинка). This magazine he edited and published between 1850 and 1857 sometimes together with almanac Šumadinče (Serbian Cyrillic: Шумадинче) in which he published his father's manuscripts about the First Serbian uprising, (Rukopisi Prote Mateje Nenadovića). Until 1857 he was employed with Ministry of education and internal affairs. He corresponded with writers Đorđe Rajković (1825-1886), Ludwig August von Frankl, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, and Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja to whom he dedicated a poem. In 1857 he went to Cetinje in Montenegro. He had frequent correspondence with Montenegrin Knjaz Danilo and organized delivery of one printing press to him. In 1858 he was secretary of the mission of Principality of Serbia in Istanbul. In 1859 he was appointed to be head of the Ministry of Education. In 1868 he retired and lived in Valjevo until 1874 when he left for Montenegro where he stayed until 1878. From 1878 until his death in 1895 he lived in Valjevo.
The first academicians to be appointed in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the 5th of April 1887 were four for each professional academy. The first members of the Academy of Natural Sciences were Josif Pančić, Dimitrije Nešić, Ljubomir Klerić and Jovan Žujović; in the Academy of Philosophical Sciences these were Stojan Novaković, Milan Kujundžić Aberdar, Svetislav Vulović and Svetomir Nikolajević; first members of the Academy of Social Sciences were Čedomilj Mijatović, Milan Milićević, Ljubomir Kovačević (1848-1918) and Panta Srećković; and in the Academy of Arts: Ljubomir Nenadović, Matija Ban, Mihailo Valtrović and Davorin Jenko. The oldest member, Josif Pančić, was appointed president and the youngest member, Jovan Žujović, was temporarily chosen as permanent secretary.

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Ilija Ognjanovic was born on 30th April (12th May) 1845 in Novi Sad. He comes from very old farming family. In Sremska Kamenica graduated from Elementary school, and afterwards goes to german Border school in Petrovaradin. In 1866/67. he went to Faculty of medicine in Budapest and graduated in 1872 in Vienna, and specilize surgery in 1873. The same year he went back to Novi Sad and started to work; at the same time he was a personal doctor of Marija Trandafil. 1888 he was a supervisor of Hospital`s delivery sector. Also he was a poet and editor of magazine "Zolja" in age of 16, and year after "Đački venac". He wrote medical–instructed columns. All of known illnesses at the time he translated and described on Serbian, Hungarian and German. Because of his work he was awarded with many honours. He was member of Literature department of matica srpska, Backa Eparchy Bureau, Serbian Scholar Men Society (1883), honorable member of Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts. His life wasn`t easy. In early years of his life he became an orphan, dependent from generosity of whealty people and institutions, and often of his labour. He suffered from heart weakness and last three years from diabetes. He went to Austrian hospital for treatment (Dobelbad, 1900) and instead of getting better the illness grew stronger. He decides to go back to Novi Sad. A day after, he went to sanatorium in Budim where he died. It was on 8th (21st) August, in his 55th year of life. The body was transported to Novi Sad and buried on Almas cemetery, on 10th (23rd) August 1900.