Branko Ćopić was Yugoslav

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 writer. He was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Hašani

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 near Bosanska Krupa

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. He attended schools in Bihać

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, Banja Luka

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, Sarajevo

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 and Karlovac

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 before moving to Belgrade

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 to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade

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 until his graduation in 1940.

Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina

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 in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II

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. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional writer.

His books have been translated into Albanian

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, Czech

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, English

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, Dutch

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, Italian

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, Mandarin, Cantonese, Polish

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, Romanian

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, Turkish

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, Slovak

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, German

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, French

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, and Russian

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, and some of them have been turned into TV series and fe
He was featured on the 0.50 Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark

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 bill, which has been withdrawn from circulation and replaced with coins.

Short stories

• Pod Grmečom - At the Foot of Mt. Grmeč (1938),
• Bojovnici i bjegunci - Fighters and Fugitives (1939),
• Planinci - Mountaineers (1940),
• Rosa na bajonetima - Dew on the Bayonets (1947),
• Surova škola – The Cruel School (1948),
• Odabrane ratne pripovetke – Selected War Stories (1950),
• Izabrane humorističke priče – Selected Humoristic Stories (1952),
• Dragi likovi – People Dear to Me (1953),
• Doživljaji Nikoletine Bursaća – The Adventures of Nikoletina Bursać (1955),
• Bašta sljezove boje – Mallow-Coloured Garden (1969);

Novels

• Prolom – The Break-out(1952),
• Gluvi barut – Silent Gunpowder (1957),
• Ne tuguj, bronzana stražo – Bronze Guards, Don't Mourn (1958)
• Osma ofanziva - The Eight Offensive - 1966;

Poems

• Ognjeno rađanje domovine – Homeland’s Fiery Birth (1944),
• Poems (1945),
• Ratnikovo proljeće – Spring of a Warrior (1947);

Writings for children

Short stories:

• Priče partizanke – Partisan Stories (1944),
• Pjesme pionirke – Pioneer Verses (1945),
• Vratolomne priče – Breakneck Stories (1947),
• Sunčana republika – The Sunny Republic (1948),
• Аrmija, odbrna tvoja – The Army, Your Defense (1949),
• Priče ispod zmajevih krila – Stories from beneath the Dragon’s Wings (1950),
• Pijetao i mačak – The Rooster and the Tomcat (1952),
• Bosonogo djetinjstvo - Barefoot Childhood (1976),
• Ježeva kućica - The Hedgehog's House,
• U svijetu medvjeda i leptirova - In the World of Bears and Butterflies,
• Doživljaji mačka Toše - The Adventures of Toša the Cat;

And novels:

• Orlovi rano lete
  Orlovi rano lete
  Orlovi rano lete is a Yugoslavian children's book written by Branko Ćopić and published in 1959 and made into a film in 1966.-Synopsis:...
  
  - Eagles Start Flying Early (1959),
• Slavno vojevanje – Glorious Combat (1960) and
• Bitka u Zlatnoj dolini – The Battle of Golden Valley

– these three are known as „Pionirska trilogija“ - The Pioneer Trilogy,

• Magareće godine - "Donkey" Years (meaning: The Tough Teens);

Films and television series made after Ćopić's writings

• "Živjeće ovaj narod" (1947)
• "Major Bauk" (1951)
• "Grob u žitu" (1951)
• "Nikoletina Bursać (1964)
• "Orlovi rano lete" (1966)
• "Četrdeset prva" (1971)
• "Hajdučka vremena" (1977)
• "Mala moja iz Bosanske Krupe" (1978)
• "Osma ofanziva", TV-series (1979)
• "Bježaćemo čak u Liku" (1979)
• "Odumiranje međeda" (1982)
• "Smiješne i druge priče", TV-series (1986)
• "Razgovori stari" (1986)
• "Gluvi barut
  Gluvi barut
  Silent Gunpowder is a 1990 Yugoslavian war film directed by Bato Čengić, starring Mustafa Nadarević, Branislav Lečić, Fabijan Šovagović, Mira Furlan, Boro Stjepanović and Josip Pejaković.- Plot :...
  
  " (1990)
• "Magareće godine" (1994)

See also

• Bosnian culture
• Serbian literature
  Serbian literature
  Serbian literature refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia.The history of Serbian literature begins with theological works from the 10th- and 11th centuries, developing in the 13th century by Saint Sava and his disciples...