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1910
Born into a distinguished middle class family.
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1914
His father, a doctor, is killed in the war.
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1928
At eighteen goes to Paris, attends a school of sculpture and
comes into contact with the Surrealists.
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1929
Publishes his first poems in the Belgrade magazines Evropa
(Europe) and 50a.
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1930
Publication of his book of poems San ili biljka (A Dream or
a Plant).
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1934
Publishes Ljubav i sloboda (Love and Freedom) – a book of
poems.
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1938
Contributes to the Parisian paper Commune, and definitively
returns to Belgrade that year.
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1940
Publishes his first novel Polomljena kola (The Broken Cart).
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1941–1944
Joins the partisans after hiding from the police in Belgrade
for several years.
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1945
Publication of his volume of poetry Ogledalo (The Mirror).
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1954
Publication of his poetry I s tobom sama (No Less Alone With
You).
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1955
Publishing of his book U zemlji Arastrata (In the Land of
Arastrat) on which he had worked for a long time. Exhibits
paintings in the Artist’s Club in Belgrade.
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1956
Exhibits abstract paintings in Paris (Gallery de Bon), which
H. Michaux writes about. The same works are exhibited in Belgrade
some time later.
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1960
Publishing of his book Skriveni svetovi (The Hidden Worlds).
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1961
Writes the historic novel Draga Masin.
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1963
His book of poems Kurir na prozoru (Messenger at the Window)
comes out after being rejected by the publisher for 12 years.
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1972
Tanja Zivanovic makes a documentary film about him.
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1975
His book of poetry Mesecina u tetrapaku (Moonlight in a Carton),
which got favourable reviews, comes out. He made fifteen short
films (Pionir i dvojka (The Pioneer and the Poor Grade), Prvi
srpski ustanak (The First Serbian Uprising), Milena Pavlovic
Barili, etc. and one feature film – Devojcica i njena lutka
Crvenkapa (A Girl and Her Doll Red Riding Hood). He went in
for different sports and behaved and dressed ljuite unconventionally.