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Vasko Popa born June 29, 1922, Grebenac, Serbia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes [later Yugoslavia]
died Jan. 5, 1991, Belgrade, Yugo.
Serbian poet who wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed more to French surrealism and Serbian folk traditions than to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II.
Popa fought with a partisan group during World War II and then studied in Vienna and Bucharest before completing his education at the Univ..
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