Branko Miljkovic

Branko Miljkovic
Rodjen je u Nisu 1934. Godine 1953. se preselio u Beograd, gde pocinje da pise pesme i da se bori za njihovo objavljivanje. Njegove pesme pokazuju uticaj francuskih simbolista Valerija i Malarmea, kao i Heraklitove filozofije. Pored poezije, pisao je eseje i kritike i bavio se prevodenjem ruskih i francuskih pesnika. Dobio je Oktobarsku nagradu Beograda 1960. za zbirku "Vatra i nista". Krajem 1960. se preselio u Zagreb. Umro je tragicno 1961.godine.
ZBIRKE PESAMA * Uzalud je budim (1957) * Smrcu protiv smrti (1959) * Poreklo nade (1960) * Vatra i nista (1960) * Krv koja svetli (1961)
Branko Miljkovic
(January 29.1934 - February 12.1961) was an iconic Serbian poet, famous across Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc for his influential writings. He died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27, found hanging from a tree in Zagreb.The incident was officially recorded as a suicide, although Serbian entenationalists manipulated his family into claiming it was foul play perpetrated by either Croatian nationalists or the Yugoslav secret police. Miljkovic was in fact going through deep depression due to the end of his relationship with an older woman. In his one-line poem "Epitaph," he writes : "Too heavy a word killed me."