11 Facts About Serbian literature

Old Church Slavonic literature was created based on the Byzantine model since the time of Constantine the Great, to be exact.

Serbian literature worked to bring about an artistic aspect to these writings, based on earlier works.

Medieval Serbian literature has influenced a number of modern poets, such as Desanka Maksimovic, Miodrag Pavlovic, Vasko Popa and Matija Beckovic.

One of the most notable tales from Serbian literature folklore is "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples".

Baroque has an important place in Serbian literature which had been interrupted by the Ottoman invasion.

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The Serbian literature Enlightenment did not produce a work of note on a European scale for obvious political, cultural and religious reasons, though it spanned every artistic field.

Serbian literature rejected the classicist norms, and objectivism, and focused on expressing direct experience and feelings in his art.

Serbian literature's poems are not purely realistic but mostly post-romantic, although they share several important elements with other realist works.

Sinficant poetry anthologies in Serbian literature which became canonical are: Antologija novije srpske lirike by Bogdan Popovic, Antologija srpske poezije by Zoran Misic, and Antologija srpskog pesnistva by Miodrag Pavlovic.

Several authors of Serbian literature dealt with the more complex life and society and its morals during the Communist period.

Authors writing in Serbian who have won the European Union Prize for Literature include Jelena Lengold, Ugljesa Sajtinac, Darko Tusevljakovic, Tanja Stupar-Trifunovic and Lana Bastasic.