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Front: Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (1833-1904), Serb poet

Zmaj was born in Novi Sad. He finished elementary school in Novi Sad and secondary school in Bratislava. He received his post-secondary education in Budapest, Praha and Vienna. In 1870 he came back to Novi Sad to work as a doctor.

His writing style covered all genres of poetry: love, lyric, patriotic, political, and educational. But he is most well known for his children's poetry. His nursery rhymes have entered national consciousness and people sing them to their children even without knowing who wrote them.

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