Jelena Bilbija Lapčević

Writer, translator, actress, journalist and speaker. She was born in Crni Lug, near Grahovo and was educated in Belgrade. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and at the same time attended the State Acting School, where she graduated in 1928. She had the honor of being the first to announce the solemn beginning of the regular broadcasting of Radio Belgrade. She was the first editor of the children's magazine Poletarac and wrote several children's books. She was an advisor in the founding of Television Belgrade and a role model for a plethora of talented radio journalists in the former Yugoslavia.