Jelena Skerlić Ćorović (1887 - 1960)

Short name Jelena Skerlić Ćorović
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First name Jelena
Birth name Skerlić Ćorović
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Alternative name Јелена Скерлић Ћоровић
Date of birth 1887
Date of death 1960
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Sex Female
Place of birth Belgrade
Place of death Belgrade
Lived in Serbia
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Jelena Skerlić Ćorović was ...
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Receptions of Jelena Skerlić Ćorović, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Зора Прица Belović Bernadžikovska, Jelica 1913 comments on person
Библиографија књига женских писаца у Југославији 1936 comments on person
Богдан и Павле Поповић у мемоарским записима Јелене Скерлић Ћоровић 1998 comments on person
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She was born in 1887, as Jelena Skerlić, the sister of the famous literary critic Jovan Skerlić. In 1910 she married Vladimir Ćorović, a distinguished professor of history, rector of the University of Belgrade and member of the Serbian Royal Academy, with whom she had a daughter. In 1919, Vladimir having received tenure as a professor at the Faculty of Philology, Jelena took up residence in Belgrade. She died in 1960. She translated from French and English, mostly short stories and novels by Maupassant, but also works by Jules Lemaitre, Claude Farrère, Ernest Renan, Henri Lavedan, Chamfort and Dostoevsky. In 1932 she published, along with the literary analysis of Khayyam poems, the adaptation of nine rubaiyats based on Fitzgerald’s translation, and a second volume containing seventy five rubaiyats, which she had adapted from the French prosaic translation of the original. She wrote a series articles, memoirist fragments on Milovan Glišić, Bogdan and Pavle Pavlović, as well as autobiographical sketches on her childhood and the life of her famous brother Jovan Skerlić.