Veljko Petrović (poet)

[4] His father George was a catechist from Sombor who became a monk after his wife's sudden death, taking the name of Gerasim in a monastery in 1891, and later went on to teach at the well-known seminary, Clerical Grande école of Saint Arsenije in Sremski Karlovci.

[7] As a young man, Petrović wrote about the pronounced apathy of the Serbian youth and people in Sombor, which he said he vegetates and knows little about Serbs from other parts, as well as that they prefer to speak Hungarian en masse.

[8] During the Great War, he was among the many Serbian soldiers who crossed the Albanian mountains in late 1915 and early 1916 during heavy winter storms on their retreat to Corfu.

In 1916, after arriving from Corfu to Salonika, he published the patriotic poem "Serbia" on the front page of the American Srbobran.

The first assembly of the Writers' Association was held in March 1937 in the hall of the Belgrade cafe "Kod dva jelena".