Srba Mitrović

Srba Mitrović (Serbian-Cyrillic: Срба Митровић; 23 December 1931 in Lalinac (Svrljig), Yugoslavia – 1 February 2007 in Belgrade) was a Serbian poet, translator and librarian.

Mitrović attended the primary school in Pirot and Niš, and the secondary school (gymnasium) in Niš and Belgrade with maturity diploma in 1952, then he studied with focus on English-speaking literature at the former Department of Yugoslav and World Literature of the Philological Faculty of Belgrade’s University and graduated with diploma in 1962.

During his study time, he worked for the companies Intercont and Jugoelektro in Belgrade, and completed his military service in Yugoslav Army.

After completion of his academic education, he became teacher for Serbo-Croatian language and literature at the care facility for children and adolescents (Prihvatilište za decu i omladinu), in which he taught young people who were victims of domestic violence, maltreatment, abuse and neglect from 1963–64, then he worked as librarian at the school library of Zemun Gymnasium until his retirement in 1985.

Tanja Kragujević commemorates his life and work in an essay on her Website, and recalls his significance for contemporary Serbian poetry.