Vladimir Stanimirović


Vladimir Stanimirović was a Serbian lawyer, war poet, writer and translator. He also made a name for himself as a war poet.

Biography

As a high school student, he graduated on top of his class at the Šabac gymnasium in 1895. He went to Law School in Belgrade's Grandes écoles, graduating summa cum laude. He was one of the founders of the magazine Slovenski jug. During the Great War he was a correspondent of the newspaper Srpska Novine in Corfu.Today he is best remembered for Izgnanici: albanska odiceja and Kniga stihova.

Works

He wrote for such publications as Iskra, the Serbian literary periodical Delo, Brankovo kolo, Bosanska vila and others. His now-famous verses are carved on the monument of deceased soldiers and officers of the Drina division in the village of Agios Mateos in Corfu:
A Serbian Epitaph
NEVER a Serbian flower shall bloom
In exile on our far-off tomb.
Our little ones shall watch in vain:
Tell them we shall not come again.
Yet greet for us our fatherland,
And kiss for us her sacred strand.
These mounds shall tell the years to be
Of men who died to make her free.