The great Bosnian and Montenegrin writer, essayist, literary critic and translator Marko Vešović died in Sarajevo last night.
Vešović left the world at the age of 78.
Marko Vešović was born in March 1945 in the village of Pape near Bijelo Polje in Montenegro. He finished high school in Bijelo Polje, Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. As a teacher, he worked at the Sarajevo secondary traffic school and at the “Pero Kosorić” high school.
For about ten years, Marko Vešović was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, then for a number of years he was an editor at the “Veselin Masleša” Publishing House. He returned to the Faculty of Philosophy in 1992.
He lived and worked in Sarajevo.
His significant work is the war prose “Death is a master from Serbia” (1994), in which he also described his pre-war experiences with the war criminal Radovan Karadžić, once a fellow poet.
At one time he was the honorary president of the Liberal Union of Montenegro.
He wrote columns in several Montenegrin and Bosnian newspapers, and published over 30 books of poetry and prose, poetry translations, essays and polemics.
