Writer Marko Vešović passed away

The great Bosnian and Montenegrin writer, essayist, literary critic and translator Marko Vešović died in Sarajevo last night.
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.
Ten years later, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Language in the Poetry of Radovan Zogović" at his home faculty in Sarajevo.
Marko Vešović published over 30 books of poetry and prose, poetry translations, essays and polemics.
Marko Vešović will be buried in Sarajevo on Monday, August 21.
M.J.