Veljko Milićević
He is considered "the first authentic narrator of a modern formal stylistic and thematic orientation in Serbian literature at the beginning of the twentieth century."[2] A short story (pripovetke) writer,[3] Veljko Miličević wrote under a French pseudonym L'homme qui rit.Upon his return from abroad, he was contributing to practically every major Serbian newspaper, magazine, and periodical in the country, including Sarajevo's Narod; Zagreb's Vremena, Novi List, Epoha; and Belgrade's Politika.His first original works were Mrtvi Život (Dead Life, 1903),[5] Vihor (Whirlwind, 1904) and Bespuće (Wastelands, 1906).His contemporaries were Stevan Bešević-Petrov, Dragomir Brzak, Josip Bersa, Miloš Perović, Vladimir Stanimirović, and Vladislav Petković Dis.