[1] At the beginning of World War I, Crnjanski was persecuted as part of the general anti-Serbian retribution of Austria to Princip's assassination in Sarajevo.

[4] After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1922,[2] he taught at the Fourth Belgrade Grammar School and espoused "radical modernism" in articles for periodicals including Ideje, Politika and Vreme – sparking "fierce literary and political debates".

[1] In 1928 in a semi-diplomatic capacity, he spent a year in Berlin after joining the Central Press Bureau of the Yugoslav Government.

[4] He entered the diplomatic corps for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and worked in Germany (1935–1938) and Italy (1939–1941) before being evacuated during WWII to England.

He returned to Belgrade after 20 years of exile in 1965 and shortly after published Sabrana dela u 10 tomova (“Collected Works in 10 volumes”).

He laid the foundations of the early avant-garde movement in Serbian literature, as exemplified by his 1920 Objašnjenje Sumatre (The Explanation of Sumatra);[1] ‘The world still hasn't heard the terrible storm above our heads, while shakings come from beneath, not from political relations, not from literary dogmas, but from life.