Isidora Sekulić

Contributions to culture and science:

Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian prose writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot, art critic and the first woman member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Board of Academicians of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts included her on the list of one hundred most important Serbian people.

Short biography:

Isidora Sekulić was born in the village of Mošorin near Titel. She spent her childhood in Zemun, Ruma and Novi Sad. She was educated in Novi Sad (Girls’ High School), Sombor and Budapest. In addition to literature, she was well acquainted with the natural sciences and philosophy. She was employed as a teacher in Pančevo and later worked in Šabac and Belgrade. In Norway, she married a Polish doctor, Emil Stremicki, who passed away shortly afterward. Isidora never married again and had no children. She defended her doctoral thesis in 1922 and later became the first president of the Writers’ Association of Serbia.

Interesting facts (Storytelling):

At her time, she was considered one of the most educated and most brilliant Serbian women. She corresponded with Serbian greats, such as Branko Radičević, Đura Jakšić, Laza Kostić, Petar Kočić, Ivo Andrić and others.
Her work Letters from Norway, published when the First World War started, was not first noticed by the public but later became one of Serbian modernism’s most important prose works and one of the most beautiful travelogues of Serbian literature.