It was awarded annually for the best book of poetry published in Serbian. The award ceremony is held on the day of Popa's birthday, 29 June. Works Poetical oeuvre Kora (Bark), 1953 Nepočin polje (No-rest Field),1965 Sporedno nebo (Secondary Heaven), 1968 Uspravna zemlja (Earth Erect) 1972 Vučja so (Wolf's Salt), 1975 Kuća nasred druma (Home in the Middle of the Road), 1975 Živo meso (Raw Meat), 1975 Rez (The Cut), 1981 Gvozdeni sad (Iron Plantage), unfinished Collections oeuvre Od zlata jabuka (Apple of Gold), a collection of folk poems, tales, proverbs, riddles, and curses selected from the vast body of Yugoslav folk literature, 1958 Urnebesnik: Zbornik pesničkog humora (Pealing Man: Collection of poetic Humour), a selection of Serbian wit and humor, 1960 Ponoćno Sunce (Midnight Sun), a collection of poetic dream visions, 1962 Major literary works available in English Vasko Popa (NYRB Poets), selected and translated by Charles Simic (NYRB, 2019), ISBN 978-1681373362 Complete Poems., ed. Francis R. Jones, co-tr. Anne Pennington, introduction Ted Hughes. Anvil, 2011. The Star Wizard's Legacy: Six Poetic Sequences, trans. Morton Marcus (White Pine Press, 2010), Collected Poems, Anvil Press Poetry, 1998 Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems, trans. Charles Simic (Oberlin College Press, 1987), Golden Apple, Anvil P Poetry, 1980 Vasko Popa: Collected Poems 1943-1976, trans. Anne Pennington (Persea Books of New York, 1978) Earth Erect, Anvil P Poetry, 1973 References External links Biographical information Give Me Back My rags, Translated by Charles Simic Poem Hunter, All Poems of Vasko Popa A Shepherd of Wolves? Eleven Poems by Vasko Popa, translated by Anthony Weir Poem no. 22 from the "Far Inside Us" collection by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic Poem "If not for Your Eyes" by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic Poem "Kalenics" by Vasko Popa, translated by Lazar Pascanovic Vasko Popa in Persian Anthology of World Poetry Translated works by Vasko Popa 1922 births 1991 deaths People from Bela Crkva Serbian male poets Yugoslav poets University of Bucharest alumni Yugoslav Partisans members University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Serbian people of Romanian descent 20th-century Serbian poets Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery Romanians of Vojvodina