Danica Marković

Danica Marković (Čačak, 1 October 1879-Belgrade, 9 July 1932), the first modern Serbian woman lyric poet, who was also important for her feminist writings. Her pseudonym was Zvezdanka.

The fate of Danica Marković is unusual. After the acclaim which greeted her first volume of poetry , she was largely forgotten in the altered climate of cultural life following the Great War. Her personal experience was harsh: three of her six children died and she was left by her husband to bring up the other three on her own. Eventually her will snapped and, one summer night in 1932, she drowned herself. Neglected for more than 40 years, now after communism, her life story and writings are beginning to come to light.