Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov

Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov
Born 17 July 1880
Saranovo
Died 1933
Nationality Serbia
Genre Poetry, journalism
Spouse Georgi Dimitrov

Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov (1880-1933) was a Serbian textile worker, labour activist, newspaper editor and the first Serbian proletarian poet.[1][2]

Biography

Born on 17 July 1880 in the village of Saranovo in central Serbia, Ljubica Ivošević was the youngest child of Milovan and Milica Ivošević. When she was 16, she went to Smederevska Palanka with one of her brothers as a textile worker and joined the labour movement (Opšteg zanatlijskog radnikog društva or General Artisan Workers Society).[1]

She married Georgi Dimitrov who came from a family of working class activists. He was a unionist and socialist and they had met in 1903 in Sliven. Ljubica had spent time in Vienna and she taught her new husband German.[3]

Ljubica had mental health issues and on 27 May 1933 she committed suicide while her husband was in prison.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov" (in Serbian). Knjizenstvo. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov". Kakvazenska. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 Georgi Dimitrov (1 October 2008). The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949. Yale University Press. pp. 18–et al. ISBN 978-0-300-13385-1.
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