Vladislav Dis

March 10, 1880 (age 37)

Zablaće, Serbia

He made his way to Čačak, graduating from the Gymnasium and Teacher"s College in 1902. He was appointed temporary teacher at Prlita, a village near the town of Zaječar. He did not like teaching, and his small output of poetry brought him little income. He was a frequent evening visitor to the Belgrade"s kafanas in Skadarlija and elsewhere where he would drink and compose new verse at the same time. He obtained an appointment as a customs official with the municipal government, giving him a good income and leisure time to write. He was named co-editor, with Sima Pandurović, of Literary Weekend (Književna nedelja). Both Petković-Dis and Pandurović were considered the enfants terribles of their literary world (both being under the influence of Charles Baudelaire and other French Symbolists, like Šantić, Dučić, Rakić, Ćorović, and even Skerlić before he abandoned the movement). He wrote Spomenik (Monument) in anticipation of the Great War: During the outbreak of the First Balkan War he was conscripted by the military as a journalist. He was the war correspondent covering battles of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War (1912), Second Balkan War (1913), and the Great War that followed. In 1915 he joined the Serbian army in their retreat to Corfu. From Corfu Petković-Dis was sent to France to recuperate and write about the entire tragedy. In 1917, on his way back, on either 16 May or 29 May (varying sources), he became a civilian war casualty after boarding an Italian ship, destined for Corfu. lieutenant was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Ionian Sea. He is said to have predicted his unfortunate destiny, for one of his most famous collections of poems is called Drowned Souls, earning him the reputation of a "cursed poet".He was 37 years old.

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He was born in 1880 in Zablaće, near Čačak in Serbia and died in 1917 on a boat on the Ionian Sea after being hit by a torpedo. Vladislav Petković was born in Zablaće, a village near Čačak, in the Principality of Serbia.

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In 1903, he moved to Belgrade, and became prominent in the literary life there, when his poems appeared in Idila, a literary magazine.Vladislav Petković chose his appellation "Dis" as a repetition of the middle syllable of his first name, but also as the name of the Roman god of the underworld.

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He made his way to Čačak, graduating from the Gymnasium and Teacher"s College in 1902. He was appointed temporary teacher at Prlita, a village near the town of Zaječar. He did not like teaching, and his small output of poetry brought him little income.

He was a frequent evening visitor to the Belgrade"s kafanas in Skadarlija and elsewhere where he would drink and compose new verse at the same time.

He obtained an appointment as a customs official with the municipal government, giving him a good income and leisure time to write. He was named co-editor, with Sima Pandurović, of Literary Weekend (Književna nedelja).

Both Petković-Dis and Pandurović were considered the enfants terribles of their literary world (both being under the influence of Charles Baudelaire and other French Symbolists, like Šantić, Dučić, Rakić, Ćorović, and even Skerlić before he abandoned the movement). He wrote Spomenik (Monument) in anticipation of the Great War: During the outbreak of the First Balkan War he was conscripted by the military as a journalist.

He was the war correspondent covering battles of the Serbian Army in the First Balkan War (1912), Second Balkan War (1913), and the Great War that followed.

In 1915 he joined the Serbian army in their retreat to Corfu. From Corfu Petković-Dis was sent to France to recuperate and write about the entire tragedy. In 1917, on his way back, on either 16 May or 29 May (varying sources), he became a civilian war casualty after boarding an Italian ship, destined for Corfu.

lieutenant was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Ionian Sea.

He is said to have predicted his unfortunate destiny, for one of his most famous collections of poems is called Drowned Souls, earning him the reputation of a "cursed poet".He was 37 years old.

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