About Vasko Popa
Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of ethnic-Romanian heritage. He is regarded as one of 20th-century Yugoslavia's and Serbia's most important poets, and his work has been widely translated. He published his first poems in the journal Književne novine (Literary News) and the newspaper Borba (Struggle). In 1953 he published his first major verse collection, Kora (Bark). In English translation, his Collected Poems first appeared in 1978, with an introduction by the British poet Ted Hughes; the final edition, his Complete Poems, appeared in 2011.
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