The Stories for Children by Selena Dukić: “The Big and the Little Ones“

Simić, Zorana (2025) The Stories for Children by Selena Dukić: “The Big and the Little Ones“. Libri et liberi : časopis za istraživanje dječje književnosti i kulture, 14 (2). pp. 307-322. ISSN 1848-3488

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Abstract

The paper provides a bio-bibliography of Selena Dukić (1909–1935), one of the most talented and versatile yet neglected writers and publicists in Serbian and Yugoslav culture, with a focus on the fiction she wrote as a child and/or for children. From an early age, while still in the lower grades of elementary school, Dukić published in a newspaper a handful of poems that suggested her future literary experiments in the most diverse genres and traditions. Later, according to her wishes, ten of her stories for children were published posthumously in 1937 in „Veliki i mali” [The Big and the Little Ones]. All aspects of the book – starting from the atypical design and editorial conception, through the (transmedia) ways of directing reception, the correlation of the (auto)biographical, journalistic, and fictional, all the way to its complex models of authorship – deserve careful interpretation and analysis, which are offered in this paper for the very first time (in the English language).

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