Poet, prose writer, playwright, essayist, one of the key Serbian writers of the 20th century. Born in 1893 into a Serbian community within the territory of Austria-Hungary. Studied at the universities of Vienna, Belgrade, Berlin, Paris, and London. At the outbreak of World War I, he was mobilized into the Austro-Hungarian army. Crnjanski's debut collection Lyrics of Ithaca (Лирике Итаке) was published in 1919, and in 2025 it was published for the first time in Russian translation by Anna Rostokina and Sofija Alempijević (Moscow: SOYAPRESS) — the edition also includes the poet's own commentaries on the poems. Founder of Sumatraism, which he defined in the poem "Sumatra" (1920) and the essay Explanation of Sumatra, as well as in the novel Notes on Čarnojević (Дневник о Чарнојевићу)(1921). From 1945 to 1965 he lived in exile in London. During Crnjanski's lifetime, the following books were published: The Migration (Сеобе) (1929, 1962), Lament over Belgrade (Ламент над Београдом)(1962), A Novel about London (Роман о Лондону)(1972), and others. Died in 1977 in Belgrade.