![]() Ćopić was born into a Bosnian Serb family on 1 January 1915 in the village of Hašani, near Bosanska Krupa in the Bosanska Krajina region of western Bosnia. In the early 1950s, he also wrote satirical stories, criticizing social and political anomalies and personalities from the country's political life of the time, for which he was considered a dissident and "heretic", and had to explain himself to the party hierarchy. ![]() However, quality of his writings brought him inclusion into primary school curriculum, which meant that some of his stories found its way in to the text-books and some novels became compulsory reading. This allowed him to live solely from his writings, which was rare for the novelists in Yugoslavia at the time. He wrote poetry, short stories and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, often set during World War II in revolutionary Yugoslavia, written with characteristic Ćopić's humor in the form of ridicule, satire and irony.Īs a professional writer, Ćopić was very popular and was able to sell large number of copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hašani, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-HungaryĪlley of Distinguished Citizens, Belgrade New Cemeteryīranko Ćopić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић, pronounced 1 January 1915 – 26 March 1984) was a Serbian, Bosnian and Yugoslavian writer. ![]()
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