in relation to their traditional way of life. For Nove Dimitrijevic won the prestigious Matica Srpska prize for literature in 1912. She also wrote lyric poetry as well as novels, but is possibly most famous for her Pisma iz Nisa o Haremima, a semi-fictionalised, semi-historical, anthropological narrative containing portraits of life in the Turkish harems 50 years before her birth when the south-Serbian city of Niš was still a part of the Ottoman Empire, and Pisma iz Soluna/Letters from Salonica, a genuine travelogue from the Ottoman Empire during the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, of which Salonica was the centre. The Letters were published first in Srpski književni glasnik (Serbian Literary Review) in 1908–09, and then as a separate book in 1918 in Sarajevo. By the beginning of the 20th Century she and her husband were living in Belgrade and she was a member of the Serbian Writers' Society. She died in Belgrade on 10 April 1945, aged 83. Works Jelenine pesme (Pesme Jelene Jov. Dimitrijevića), 1894. Pisma iz Niša o haremima, 1897. Đul-Marikina prikažnja, short stories, 1901. Fati-Sultan, Safi-Hanum,Mejrem-Hanum, short stories, 1907. Nove, 1912. Amerikanka, 1918. Pisma iz Soluna, 1918. Pisma iz Indije, 1928. Pisma iz Misira, 1929. Novi svet ili u Americi godinu dana, 1934. Une vision, 1936. Sedam mora i tri okeana. Putem oko sveta, 1940. See also Isidora Sekulić Mir-Jam References Sources Hawkesworth, Celia, Voices in the Shadows: Women and Verbal Art in Serbia and Bosnia, published by Central European University Press (Budapest, New York, 2000). Skerlić, Jovan, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti/A History of New Serbian Literature'' (Second Edition, 1921), p. 476. 1862 births 1945 deaths Serbian feminists Women travel writers Serbian travel writers Serbian women short story writers Serbian short story writers Serbian novelists Serbian women poets Writers from Kruševac Serbian women novelists 19th-century Serbian women writers 20th-century Serbian women writers