Jovan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Поповић; 18 November 1905 – 13 February 1952) was a Serbian writer and academic. Popović was born in Kikinda, in modern-day Serbia. He joined the Yugoslav Partisans in the beginning of the armed struggle in Serbia in 1941. He became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on November 14, 1950. His statue stands on the square of his hometown of Kikinda and a grammar school in Belgrade is named after him. Source: Wikipedia (en)