About
Bosnian-Serbian poet, writer, songwriter, and translator who wrote nearly 800 poems (collected in six volumes) and seven plays. Also an editor, he headed a literary review called Zora during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Before Fame
He was ten years old when his hometown of Mostar, Bosnya Villayet (then part of the Ottoman Empire) was occupied by Austria-Hungary.
Trivia
Following his 1924 death, a village in Serbia was re-named Aleksa Santic in his honor.
Family Life
His parents, Mara and Risto Santic, had four other children. Tragically, one of Santic's sisters died as an infant.
Associated With
Santic, like Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and many other literary and artistic figures of the era, suffered from tuberculosis.
