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liješanj , bosnia and herzegovina yugoslav 23 may 1961 marinko stevanovic.jpg marinko stevanović
 marinko stevanović poet
marinko stevanović

marinko stevanović -lrb- may 23 , 1961 -rrb- is a yugoslav writer .
he was born in the village of liješanj near zvornik , now he lives in vienna , austria since 1992 .
he attended schools in drinjača -lrb- primary school -rrb- and gymnasium -lrb- secondary school -rrb- in zvornik .
then he studied astronomy at the university of belgrade 1981-1984 .
he switched his interest to pedagogy and graduated at the pedagogical academy , university of tuzla 1987 which gained him a right to work as a primary school teacher .
marinko has been writing poems since 1976 in the opus „ provincijski razgovori `` -lrb- provincial conversations -rrb- .
he never publishes his poems as a collection of poems in a printed form , only within a free online magnum opus provincijski razgovori -lrb- provincial conversations -rrb- .
opus consists of three parts : provincijski razgovori -lrb- provincial conversations -rrb- ; u svijetu prašine -lrb- in the world of dust -rrb- and urbani razgovori -lrb- urban conversations -rrb- .
his poems have a humanistic and antiwar character , with an antipatriotic connotation .
his poems have been translated into english , dutch and german .
he also writes in german .
his poetry reflects on the burning problems of society as well as his own philosophy of life and a meaning .
„ participants `` of the conversations -lrb- as author calls them -rrb- are the teacher -lrb- učitelj -rrb- , the preacher -lrb- propovijednik -rrb- , the poet -lrb- pjesnik -rrb- , the philosopher -lrb- filozof -rrb- , the ordinary optimist -lrb- obični optimista -rrb- , the ordinary pessimist -lrb- obični pesimista -rrb- , the ironic pessimist -lrb- ironični pesimista -rrb- and the ironic optimist -lrb- ironični optimista -rrb- .
those participants reflect authors ' capability to transform his view of the world through seemingly different personalities and attitudes .
marinkos ' poetry summarizes many aspects of life -- from daily motives of love , emotional plays and love for life , to a high critique of hot society topics .
it 's very clear that an author with his social critique goes out of the frames of a national or any other conservative belief and does an unbiased perspective of balkans with , often , satirical elements and a firm structure .
his style is vivid , his messages have a social value and together they represent a compact philosophical approach of author .
marinko also wrote many poems inspired by his pupils while he worked as a teacher .
his urban conversations are distinctive from provincial conversations when comparing the style as well as the overall atmosphere in the poems .
these differences profoundly , still subtly , indicate the basic conflict between a province and urbanity , between our instinctive simplicity and achieved complex abstraction .
