Petar Kočić
Bosnian Serb writer (1877-1916) · Turkey · On the map · Writers · Died at 39
Petar Kočić was a Bosnian Serb writer, activist and politician. Born in rural northwestern Bosnia in the final days of Ottoman rule, Kočić began writing around the turn of the twentieth century, first poetry and then prose.
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The house in which Kočić was born, Stričići
Kočić studied at the University of Vienna between 1899 and 1905
A statue of the writer in Petar Kočić park, Banja Luka
The building of the Diet of Bosnia, 1917
A 1977 Yugoslav commemorative postage stamp
The handwritten first draft of one of Kočić's short storiesAbout this person
While a university student, he became politically active and began agitating for agrarian reforms within Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been occupied by Austria-Hungary following the Ottomans' withdrawal in 1878. Other reforms that Kočić demanded were freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, which were denied under Austria-Hungary.
