Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade. Within a few years, her poems appeared in the Serbian Literary Herald, Belgrade's most influential literary publication. In 1925, Maksimović earned a French Government scholarship for a year's study at the University of Paris. Upon her return, she was appointed a professor at Belgrade's elite First High School for Girls, a position she would hold continuously until World War II.
Desanka Maksimović
Maksimović spent much of her childhood in Brankovina
Maksimović (front row, centre) at a meeting of Yugoslav writers in 1929
Maksimović attending a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of Ivo Andrić's birth, October 1992
The University of Belgrade is a public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
University of Belgrade in 1890
First professors of the University of Belgrade (1905).
Administration and governance building (included in Serbia's register of most important historic buildings)
The Belgrade University Library, a Carnegie library, with over 1.5 million items
