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Svetozar Ćorović
Svetozar Ćorović was a Serb novelist from the city of Mostar in Herzegovina, born in 1875 before the Congress of Berlin and the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the region. Well-resp...view moreSvetozar Ćorović was a Serb novelist from the city of Mostar in Herzegovina, born in 1875 before the Congress of Berlin and the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the region. Well-respected for his literary work, he was elected to the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1910. At the start of the Great War Ćorović spent time as a hostage in conditions best described in his own words, later being sent to Kaiserliches und Königliches Kriegsgefangenenlager Boldogasszony, catching tuberculosis, being released and then being drafted by the military in 1917 before being discharged for poor health and returning to die in his native Mostar in 1919, the same year this work was first published.view less