28 November 2022(2022-11-28) (aged 77) Belgrade, Serbia
Occupation
Poet, literary critic
Nationality
Serbian
Rajko Petrov Nogo (Serbian Cyrillic: Рајко Петров Ного; 13 May 1945 – 28 November 2022) was a Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic.[1]
Biography
Nogo was born on 13 May 1945, after the end of the Second World War to parents Petar and Stana, in Borija near Kalinovik (in the old Herzegovina region of Zagorje) into a family descending from the Kuči tribe in Montenegro.[2] From his father's name, he derived the patronymic Petrov, which he added to his name.
As a boy, he moved from his native Borija to Sarajevo and began his education there. After elementary school, he graduated from the Teaching School in Sarajevo and earned a degree in Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language at the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy. He later received his master's degree at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.[1] He worked as an editor in the Veselin Masleša Publishing Company from 1972 to 1982, then as an editor in Belgrade's BIGZ publishing house from 1982 to 1999.[3]