Sima Pandurović

Who was Sima Pandurović?

Sima Pandurović was a Serbian poet, part of the Symbolist movement in European poetry at the time. He was one of the founders of the Moderna movement in Serbian poetry. Young Pandurović was educated at Belgrade's Grande École, and after a brief experience at teaching determined to devote himself to literature, writing poetry and criticism for literary magazines, particularly Misao, which he founded shortly after the war. At the beginning of the 20th Century, he joined "the poets of pessimism" -- Milan Rakić and Vladislav Petković Dis -- then under the influences of Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe.