| Vojin Jelić | |
| Native Name: | Војин Јелић |
| Native Name Lang: | sr-Cyrl |
| Birth Date: | 27 November 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Knin, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes[1] |
| Death Place: | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb |
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| Awards: | Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement |
Vojin Jelić (Serbian: Војин Јелић; 27 November 1921 – 19 December 2004) was a Croatian Serb writer and poet. His literally work was focused on neo-veristic introspective and retrospective interaction with Serb culture and stories from the Knin region and the wider Dalmatian Hinterland.[2]
Jelić's work was translated into Czech, Slovene, Macedonian and English.[3]
He was born in Knin in 1921.[4] Jelić finished gymnasium in Šibenik in 1940.[3] He went on to study pharmacy in Belgrade.[3]
During the World War II in Yugoslavia Jelić joined Yugoslav Partisans where he joined their units in 1943.[4] [3] From 1944 je joined editorijal board of the Srpska riječ ("The Serb Word") magazine.[3]
Following the end of war Jelić initiated forestry studies in Prague in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and he completed his studies in Zagreb 1949.[4] [3] He wrote about Serbian culture and stories from the Knin region and Dalmatian Hinterland. He contributed to various publications and worked as a faculty lecturer and cultural advisor in various institutions in the Socialist Republic of Croatia.[4] Jelić was the secretary general of the SKD Prosvjeta.[4]
Jelić distanced himself from public life in Croatia in 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence and after Nedjeljko Mihanović verbally attacked him on ethnic basis.[1] He died in Zagreb in 2004.
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