Branko Miljković
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Branko Miljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Миљковић) (January 29, 1934 - February 12, 1961) was an iconic Serbian poet, famous across Yugoslavia and the Soviet bloc for his influential writings. He died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27, found hanging from a tree in Zagreb.The incident was officially recorded as a suicide, although Serbian nationalists manipulated his family into claiming it was foul play perpetrated by either Croatian nationalists or the Yugoslav secret police (Udba). Miljković was in fact going through deep depression due to the end of his relationship with an older woman. In his one-line poem "Epitaph," he writes "Уби ме прејака реч" or "Too heavy a word killed me."
