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Vojislav Mate Jovanović
1884–1968
A lively man of letters, he moved between scholarship, translation, diplomacy, and archival work while helping bring Serbian literary and folk traditions to wider audiences. His work is especially linked to the study of literature, folklore, and the long afterlife of Prosper Mérimée’s La Guzla.
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"La Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée
by Vojislav Mate Jovanović
About the author
Born in Belgrade on September 24, 1884, and later known by the nickname Marambo, he became a Serbian and Yugoslav literary historian, translator, diplomat, and researcher. Sources describe him as an unusually versatile cultural figure whose interests reached across literature, history, folklore, and archival work.
He is particularly remembered for studying Serbian folk literature and for tracing how national literature traveled into broader European literary culture. He also helped shape influential anthologies of folk poetry and stories published between the two world wars, and his name is closely associated with research on Mérimée’s La Guzla.
Beyond writing and scholarship, he worked in public and cultural life in several roles, including diplomacy and archival or library-related work. He died in Belgrade on July 20, 1968, leaving behind a reputation as a wide-ranging scholar who connected literary research with the preservation of cultural memory.