Mika Antić
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Miroslav "Mika" Antić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Мика Антић) (March 14, 1932 – June 24, 1986) is a Serbian poet. He was born in Mokrin, Vojvodina.
He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts, documentaries. Mika also acted in several movies, and was an amateur painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in Second World War and describes the beauty of Srem using bećarac song form. He is well known as a bohemian.
Mika Antic is best known as a children and youth poet, a master of delicate and gentle sentiments.
[edit] Bohemian lifestyle
His bohemian, hard-drinking lifestyle is best illustrated by a barely translatable pun about him:
- "Čika Jova deci, čika Mika Antić dva deci"
"Čika Jova deci" meaning "Uncle Jova to the children", referring to Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, a known children's poet. "Čika Mika Antić dva deci" means "Uncle Mika Antić two deciliters", referring to drinking from a glass, likely of alcohol.
