Janko Veselinović (, ; 13 May 1862 – 26 June 1905) was a Serbian writer and novelist.
Biography Janko Veselinović was born in Salaš Crnobarski on 1 May 1862 to a Serbian Orthodox family. He completed elementary school in Šabac in 1878 and enrolled into teacher's college in Belgrade from which he dropped out. He worked as a teacher between 1880 and 1882 as well as between 1886 and 1889. From 1893 he worked as an assistant for the Srpske novine newspaper editor. As an enemy of the regime he lost his job in 1899–1900 and he was arrested on three separate occasions, in 1888, 1899 and 1903. He died on 19 June 1905.
Works Pastoral: Stories from Rural Life (Сељанка: приповетке из сеоског живота), novel 1888 Pictures of Rural Life (Слике из сеоског живота), story, 2 volumes, 1886–88 Wild Flowers (Пољско цвеће), story, 1890–1891 Paradise of the Soul (Рајске душе), story, 1893 Stari poznavitsi (Стари познавици), story, 1891–96 Hajduk Stanko (Хајдук Станко), novel, 1896 Fighters (Борци), stories Letters from the Village (Писма са села), stories Complete works (Целокупна дела) 9 volumes The Flute Player, story Poteru, play (in collaboration with Čiča Ilija Stanojević), 1895
References
The factual material for the Wikipedia biography of Janko Veselinović (writer) is adapted from the Serbian of Jovan Skerlić's Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / A History of New Serbian Literature (Belgrade 1914, 1921), pages 384–390. Also, adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: Јанко Веселиновић Gerda Baudisch: The patriarchal village in the narrative work of Janko M. Veselinović (Das patriarchale Dorf im Erzählwerk von Janko M. Veselinović), Munich, 1969