Medicine · XX century · Goražde
Isak Samokovlija
1889 — 1955 · lived 66 years
Isak Samokovlija was born in Goražde. He was educated in Sarajevo and Vienna, served as a doctor in Goražde, Fojnica and Čajnič, and from 1926 in Sarajevo, where, already as a mature man, he began to deal with literature. He died in Sarajevo in January 1955.
He wrote his first short story at the age of thirty-eight ("Rafina avlija", Serbian Literary Gazette, 1927), and by the end of his life he would write about thirty more short stories, several dramatic texts and poems that were published in various local magazines.
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