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Rade Drainac (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Драинац; 26 August 1899 – 1 May 1943) was a Serbian poet.

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Biography He was born on 26 August 1899 as Radojko Jovanović in Trbunje, a village in the municipality of Blace. He studied in Serbia and lived in Paris for a short period, where he played the violin during silent films projections. Drainac followed Serbian Army during the Great Retreat. He started writing poetry as a young man, with first volume of poetry published in 1921. Besides writing poetry, Drainac worked as a journalist for several magazines, including Hipnos, Novo čovečanstvo, Front, Slike aktuelnih događaja and Nova brazda. As a reporter for Pravda, Drainac traveled extensively across the Balkans, Asia Minor and Russia, Austria, Latvia, France, Sweden, Greece, Romania, Poland and other countries. He was well known as a bohemian, and a frequent visitor of Hotel Moskva. During World War II he enlisted to fight, holding the rank of gefreiter. He was caught by Bulgarian army in 1941 and had spent a month in Crveni Krst concentration camp. Drainac pretended to be a Bulgarian and managed to get a release. Upon returning home, he found that his personal library with more than one thousand volumes had been burned down. Severely sick, Drainac died in 1943 in a state hospital in Belgrade.…Citește mai mult