41 Published BooksRastko Petrović
Rastko Petrović (Belgrade, 1898 – Washington, D.C., 1949), poet, novelist, travel writer, essayist, ethnographer, gifted sketcher, cameraman and photographer. He graduated law in France, and on his return to Yugoslavia he worked as an art and literary critic. After this he was employed in the diplomatic service and posted to Italy and the USA. Based at the Yugoslav embassy in Washington, D.C. during World War II, he remained in the United States after the war and died there.
He is considered to be one of the most important and most influential Serbian writers in the period between the two world wars.
