Darinka Jevrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Даринка Јеврић; 21 October 1947 – 16 February 2007) was a Kosovo Serb poet.

Background

Jevrić was born in Glođane (Gllogjan) near Peć. She worked for 25 years as a cultural journalist and critic at the Pristina-based Jedinstvo newspaper.

Darinka Jevrić

Her first poems were included in an anthology in 1970. They were followed in her lifetime by eight books published between 1973 and 2006. Her most famous poem is "Dečanska Zvona" ("The Deçani Bells").

Darinka Jevrić

At the end of the Kosovo War in June 1999, Jevrić was one of the few Serb intellectuals who chose to stay in Kosovo. She lived in Pristina until the March 2004 anti-Serb riots. She died in Belgrade, aged 59.

Darinka Jevrić

References

1947 births

2007 deaths

Writers from Peja

Kosovo Serbs

Yugoslav poets

Yugoslav women poets

Serbian poets

Serbian women poets

Serbian critics

Serbian women critics