13 Facts About Vasko Popa

Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of Romanian origin.

Vasko Popa continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna.

Vasko Popa published his first poems in the magazines Knjizevne novine and the daily Borba.

On 29 May 1972 Vasko Popa founded The Literary Municipality Vrsac and originated a library of postcards, called Slobodno lisce.

Vasko Popa was one of the founders of Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts, established on 14 December 1979 in Novi Sad.

Vasko Popa is the first laureate of the Branko's award for poetry, established in honour of the poet Branko Radicevic.

In 1965 Vasko Popa received the Austrian state award for European literature.

Vasko Popa died on 5 January 1991 in Belgrade and is buried in the Aisle of the Deserving Citizens in Belgrade's New Cemetery.

Vasko Popa was a good friend with French poet Alain Bosquet.

Vasko Popa was married to Jovanka "Hasha" Singer from his post-war move to Belgrade in the 1940s until the end of his life.

Vasko Popa wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed much to surrealism and Serbian folk traditions and absolutely nothing to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II.

Vasko Popa's Collected Poems translation by Anne Pennington with its introduction by Hughes is part of "The Persea Series of Poetry in Translation," general editor Daniel Weissbort.

Vasko Popa is one of the most translated Serbian poets and at the time he had become one of the most influential World poets.