Jovan Popović (writer)

Jovan Popović (Јован Поповић; 18 November 1905 – 13 February 1952) was a Serbian writer and academic.

Popović was born in Kikinda, in modern-day Serbia. He joined the Yugoslav Partisans in the beginning of the armed struggle in Serbia in 1941. He became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on November 14, 1950. His statue stands on the square of his hometown of Kikinda and a grammar school in Belgrade is named after him.

Selected works

 * Knjiga drugova (1929)
 * Reda mora da bude (1932)
 * Lica u prolazu (1941)
 * Istinite legende (1944)