Mara Đorđević-Malagurski
Mara Đorđević-Malagurski (Serbian Cyrillic: Мара Ђорђевић-Малагурски; 20 December 1894 – 9 July 1971) was a Serbian writer and ethnographer. With Lazarus Stipić, librarian public library in Subotica, she was one of the few prominent figures from the Bunjevci community in the interwar- and post-war period that considered themselves part of the Serb people.[1]
Biography
Mara Malagurski was born in Subotica. As many female school students in Subotica (Subotica City Museum) she originates from the Bunjevac Malagurski-Ćurčić family. Her grandfather, Ice Malagurski, was the first president of the Bunjevci cultural association "Pučke kasine", founded in 1878. Her father was named Josip and her mother Hristina (born Stantić). Educated in Štrosmajerovo Institute in Djakovo, and then moved on to higher school for women in Subotica. In addition, she studied English in London.
When the Grand National Assembly held in Novi Sad (1918), she was one of the seven women delegates, and at the same time one of the members of the delegation that Bunjevac opted for annexation of Vojvodina Kingdom of Serbia, and not the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. She married senator and professor Dragoslav Djordjevic in 1919. From the Beginning of 1929, she lives in Belgrade.
In Subotica she founded the Bunjevac Catholic women Society and the Dilettante Society (1911). In addition, she took part in the educational establishment Bunjevac Educational Heritage (1927), and as its first president organized exhibitions of folk crafts, theater and so on. She led Subotians to Belgrade to appear in national robes in front of the royal family and the Radio Belgrade. She was a board member of the Circle of Serbian Sisters and secondary nut, and after the end of World War II, a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia.
Papers
Her literary, ethnographic and other original works (before the 1918th g), she has published on the Bunjevac list of "Neven" under the pseudonym of Nevenka.
From the beginning of 1925, she published in: Vardar, Agricultural calendar, Literary north, Thought, Journal of the Yugoslav Association of Professors, newspapers and Bunjevac calendar. She wrote the play Manda Vojnić and booklets about the Bunjevac national costumes and customs.
Awards
For the story Vita Đanina i druge pripovetke iz bunjevačkog života she was awarded the SANU award in the Cvijete Zuzorić competition in 1928, and received the Order of St. Sava V level, White Eagle V level, the Russian Red Cross in Paris and Cross of Russian War Veterans.
Work
- Bunjevački običaji u slikama, Subotica 1926.
- Vita Đanina i druge pripovetke iz bunjevačkog života, Beograd 1933.
- Stara bunjevačka nošnja i vez, Subotica 1941.
- Bunjevka o Bunjevcima, Subotica 1941.
References
- ↑ Лазо М. Костић, Католички Срби. Политичко-историска расправа, Торонто 1963, стр. 22
- Ante Sekulić, Književnost bačkih Hrvata, Zagreb 1970, p. 55
- Đorđević-Malagurski, Mara u: Srpski biografski rečnik, 3 tom, Novi Sad 2007. ISBN 978-86-7946-001-1.