Rajko Petrov Nogo
poet, university teacher and literary critic
Rajko Petrov Nogo (Serbian Cyrillic: Рајко Петров Ного; 13 May 1945 – 28 November 2022) was a Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic.
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. 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. 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.
Nogo moved from Sarajevo to Belgrade in 1982.
From 2000, he taught poetry and literary criticism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of East Sarajevo. He was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska on 27 June 1997, and a regular member on 21 June 2004.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rajko Petrov Nogo” is poet, university teacher and literary critic. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rajko, Petrov and Nogo, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “poet, university teacher and literary critic” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11165529. VIAF identifies the subject as 46852648. The Library of Congress control number is n84004387. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945, 2022, 1972 and 1982.
A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Rajko Petrov Nogo”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Rajko Petrov Nogo primary sources, Rajko Petrov Nogo archive and Rajko research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rajko Petrov Nogo”?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
- Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Rajko Petrov Nogo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.