Slobodan Rakitić

Who is Slobodan Rakitić?

Slobodan Rakitić was a Serbian writer and politician.

Rakitić was born in Vlasovo, Prokuplje, Serbia. He attented the elementary school in Raška and the high school in Novi Pazar. First he studied at the Belgrade Medical School, but then changed to the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, where he graduated.

He was the editor of literary magazines such as Contemporary and Raška. He was a member of the first editorial staff who initiated the appearance of Literary Word in 1972. As the editor in charge of literature and language, he has been working at the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation ever since 1973.

S. Rakitić wrote and had the following books of poetry published: Lights of Writings, Raska Tunes, The world is not our home, Earth on the Tongue, Poems of Tree and Fruit, Craving for the South, A Descendant, Basic Land, Deeds on Fire, A Soul and a Sandbar; his published books and essays are: From Ithaca to Illusion, Forms and Meanings; an anthology: Yugoslav Peoples' Poetry of Romanticism; Selected Works in five volumes, Selected and New Poems, Letters Made of Water.