Svetozar orovi (29 May 1875 17 April 1919) was a Bosnian Serb novelist.

[1] In his books, he

often wrote of life in Herzegovinaand, more specifically, the city of Mostar.[2] His brother
was Vladimir orovi, a distinguished Serbian historian who was killed in 1941 during World War
II in Greece.s
Svetozar orovi was born on 29 May 1875 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then
a part of the Ottoman Empire, where he completed elementary school and trade school. From
1887 he published various works in many newspapers and magazines such as Golub (The
Pigeon), Neven, Bosanska Vila (Bosnian Fairy), Lua, Otadbina (Fatherland) and Brankovo
Kolo. He was an active member of the Society of Mostar called "Gusle". He also participated in
other Serbian literary and cultural activities. He was the editor of Neretljanin calendar (1894,
1895), the initiator and editor of the first three issues of Zora (Dawn) magazine (18961901),
member of the editorial board and associate of the Narod (People) newspaper (1907). His friends
and peers in the field of culture at the time were Jovan Dui and Aleksa anti. One of anti's
sisters, Radojka (Persa) became orovi's wife.
During the annexation crisis of 1908 he fled to Italy but was elected as the delegate by The
Bosnian Parliament in 1910. Prior to the first Balkan war of 1912, he combined patriotic themes
with folkloric elements to produce, Zulumar (The Despot), his best-known play. Upon the
outbreak of war in 1914 orovi was arrested and sent to the notorious POW camp of
Boldogason in Hungary where he developed the disease that eventually caused his premature
death. Seriously ill he returned to Mostar in 1917.
His two remaining years were a constant fight against tuberculosis that raveged his body. In
"Serbia's Great War, 19141918" by Andrej Mitrovi on page 77, we read how he was mistreated
as a prisoner-of-war: "Josip Smodlaka later recalled 'furious Hungarian soldiers wanted to
massacre' him and his comrades in Budapest, and the prominent writer Svetozar orovi was
forced by guards to run without food or water beside the railway transport carrying prisoners".
Svetozar orovi died in Mostar on 17 April 1919. He died after sustaining brutal punishment and
succumbing to disease transmitted in internment camps, where he spent the first three years of
World War I.[3] It cannot be denied that the patriotism exhibited by orovi and his brothers-atarms was unquestionable, for little mercy was shown by the Hungarians to all those who fell into
their hands. The severity of reprisal is itself the best testimony to the fear and anxiety inspired by
the presence of active Serb soldiers from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the flanks and in rear of the
invaders.

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soldiers wanted to massacre' him and his comrades in Budapest, and the prominent writer
Svetozar orovi was forced by guards to run without food or water beside the railway transport
carrying prisoners".
Svetozar orovi died in Mostar on 17 April 1919. He died after sustaining brutal punishment and
succumbing to disease transmitted in internment camps, where he spent the first three years of
World War I.[3] It cannot be denied that the patriotism exhibited by orovi and his brothers-atarms was unquestionable, for little mercy was shown by the Hungarians to all those who fell into
their hands. The severity of reprisal is itself the best testimony to the fear and anxiety inspired by
the presence of active Serb soldiers from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the flanks and in rear of the
invaders.

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