Branko Ćopić

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Branko Ćopić (БранкоЋопић January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Bosnian Serb writer. His books have been translated into English, German, French, and Russian, and some of them have been turned into TV series and feature-films.

Ćopić was born in the village of Hašani, Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His children's stories, novels, narratives, and poetry touched the lives of many. Undoubtedly, he was a cult writer to many growing up in Tito's Yugoslavia, and has been unjustifiably sidelined by literary historians since the country's break-up due to his decided and open commitment to the idea of Yugoslavism. Although he lived in Belgrade most of his life, his characters (mainly children and young people) and his stories and novels were inspired by his Bosnia and his childhood there, its nature and peaceful, proud, smart and bright people during World War II, partisans and revolution, all seen from a childish, but intelligent, highly emotional and humorious point of view. As a disappointed communist, Yugoslav, and humanist, he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge in Belgrade after writing a preamble to one of his last books in which he predicted the rise of xenophobic nationalism in the Balkans and its terrifying consequences.

He was featured on the 0.50 Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark bill, which has been withdrawn from circulation and replaced with coins.

Contents

•1 Notable Works

o 1.1 Short Stories

o 1.2 Novels

o 1.3 Poems

o 1.4 Writings for Children

•2 Films/TV-Series made after Ćopić's Writings

•3 References

Notable Works

Short Stories

•Pod Grmečom - At the Foot of Mt. Grmeč (1938),

•Borci i bjegunci - Fighters and Fugitives (1939),

•Planinci - Mountaineers (1940),

•Rosa na bajonetima - Dew on the Bayonets (1947),

•Surova škola – The Cruel School (1948),

•Odabrane ratne pripovetke – Selected War Stories (1950),

•Izabrane humorističke priče – Selected Humoristic Stories (1952),