Petar Kocic
Novelist
A storyteller, author, and member of the Serbian Orthodox National Organization, he also founded the magazine Fatherland. His popular short story collections include From the Top and Bottom of a Mountain and Howls from Zmijanje.
He attended the University of Vienna and went on to become a contributor to the first Bosnian literary magazine, The Bosnian Muse.
His magazine, Fatherland, promoted Bosnian nationalism.
He was raised in a small village near Banja Luka.
His writing style and aesthetics have been compared to those of Fyodor Dostoevsky.