Vladimir Stanimirović

Vladimir Stanimirović was a Serbian lawyer, poet, writer and translator. He also made a name for himself as a war poet.

Biography

As a high school student, he graduated top of his class at the Šabac gymnasium in 1895. He went to Law School in Belgrade's Grandes écoles where he graduated summa cum laude. He was one of the founders of the magazine Slovenski jug. During the Great War, he was a correspondent of the newspaper Srpska Novine in Corfu. Nowadays, he is best remembered for Izgnanici: albanska odiceja and Kniga stihova.

Works

Knjiga stihova ; Poljska bolnica: komad u stihovima ; Izgnanici: albanska odiceja, u tri dela, u stihu;Ezop Teodora Banvila ; and many translations from Slovenian and Bulgarian.
He wrote for such publications as Iskra, the Serbian literary periodical Delo, Brankovo kolo, Bosanska vila and others. His now-famous verses are carved on the monument of deceased soldiers and officers of the Drina division in the village of Agios Mateos in Corfu:
A Serbian Epitaph
NEVER a Serbian flower shall bloom
In exile on our far-off tomb.
Our little ones shall watch in vain:
Tell them we shall not come again.
Yet greet for us our fatherland,
And kiss for us her sacred strand.
These mounds shall tell the years to be
''Of men who died to make her free.''