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Milica Jakovljevic

Milica Jakovljevic

Biography

Milica Jakovljevic known under the name Mir-jam, was born the 22 April 1887th in a town called Jagodina. She died the 22th December 1952 as a writer in Serbia. Her childhood and youth was spent in Kragujevac, and after World War II, she moved to Belgrade. First in Belgrade, she started with her career; she started off as a journalist in a newspaper that was in Belgrade. During this time she started to write about her personal life that turned into books in the end, but in the start this came out as short love stories and novels in the newspaper. A time after this she decided to sell the novel and to publish it.

Milica Jakovljevic had a good childhood and youth, she grow up in a good home with her family. She came to Belgrade when she was 32 years old to become journalist, at that time she spoke Russian and French beside her mother language. As well she had a reputation that was tat she was beautiful, humble, hardworking girl from a good family. There were rumors that she had plenty of suitors but she didn’t marry any of them, but she had a secret passionate love.

Private life During the World War II she had to take care of her family, since she was the only one with an income. As well she had friends that always helped her when she needed, even if she in the beginning said no later on she took the gift and was thankful. Her only income was from royalties and payments from weekly illustrations for published novels. She had no savings and no shares to sell. Her brother Stevan was in captivity, and the sisters had children and the family was all together that she had to take care of. However, she got offered a job at a new times paper but she said no, she refuses an invitation to work in the occupation daily newspapers, on the pretext that she is tired and old. Later on, year 1945, despite the exhaustion and years, she tried to write in her way, which continued to be published in Belgrade.

When the war was over, her carrier started, but still she never got married the only thing that was published that she was together with a singer a couple years but not more than that.

The public was not aware how Mir-Jam had it the last couple of years before she died. At the beginning of the winter 1952 she received the pneumonia she had for her outcome. When she died nothing was published in the newspaper but those who knew her well say that her death came much earlier, when she stopped writing stories about her world, which had many virtues and flaws, but it was filled with beauty.