Velimir Živojinović Massuka (1886–1974) — also sometimes written as Masuka (Serbian Cyrillic: Масука), in a wrong transliteration from Serbian Cyrillic, as he used Massuka in Latin alphabet alongside his name in Cyrillic, namely "Велимир Живојиновић Massuka" — was a Serbian poet, playwright, literary critic, and translator.
[1] He was born in Velika Plana,[2] lost his mother at the age of one and his father when he was ten.
[2] During the First World War he was in the Serbian army and caught pneumonia in San Giovanni in 1916, was captured in Ulcinj and transferred to camp Boldogasszony (today Frauenkirchen, Austria) until 1918.
From 1925 until 1934 he translated various works from English and German, including William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Romeo and Juliet.
After the end of World War I, he married Danica Radmilović (born in 1893), a French teacher.