Boško Petrović was born on 7 January 1915 in Oradea Mare (Veliki Varadin), grew up in Morović, and was educated in Novi Sad and Belgrade.

He worked in the publishing company Budućnost, then in the publishing company Matica Srpska, for a while as a director and then as an editor-in-chief, until his retirement in 1981.

[3] Boško Petrović started his literary work in high school when he published his first poems.

In addition to poems, he wrote short stories ("Earth and Sea", 1950; "Slightly Promising Clouds", 1955; "Sep", 1960; "Conversation on Secrets", 1974), novels ("Diary of a German Soldier", 1962; "Arrival at the End of Summer," 1970; "Singer I and II", 1979), essays on literature and art (Dan među slikama, 1973).

He was also known as a theatre critic and a well-known translator from German into Serbian, especially the works of Thomas Mann, Erich M. Remarque, Rainer Rilke, Bertolt Brecht.