Milica Janković

Milica Janković (Požarevac, 23 November 1881 - Niška Banja, 27 June 1939) was a Serbian writer of prose and verse. Milica Janković is also known under her pseudonym ''Leposava Mihajlovic''. She graduated from high school in Veliko Gradište and both the then-Philology section of the Philosophy college (future Philology College, with Russian major) in 1904 and the art school of the University of Belgrade in 1907 (with some courses taken at Munich). From 1906, she went on to have a teaching career that lasted for more than three decades. She never married. Her chief work is ''Ispovesti'' ("Confessions"), a collection of modernist short stories. According to a critic, Jankovic's ''Ispovesti'' stories may be compared also with the best of Jovan Dučić's travel letters and the most perfect essays by Bogdan Popović, Pavle Popović, Jovan Skerlić, and Slobodan Jovanović. "Characterized by a clear, lively, flexible style, ''Ispovesti'' is undoubtedly the most original Serbian book of 1913. So much love, tenderness and warm understanding of suffering humanity is to be found only in one other place: The Bible." Provided by Wikipedia