Jovan Dučić

Poet, academic and diplomat. He is widely considered one of the most influential lyricists and modernist poets in the former Yugoslavia. Born in Trebinje, he moved to Mostar for schooling and trained to become a teacher in Sombor. He worked as a teacher in several towns before returning to Mostar, where he co-founded with Svetozar Ćorović and poet Aleksa Šantić the literary magazine called Zora (Dawn). He studied in Geneva and Paris and was awarded a law degree by the University of Geneva. He bacame a great diplomat and served as ambassador of Yugoslavia in Bucharest, Istanbul, Sofia, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Madrid and Lisbon.