Stevan Sremac (, ; 11 November 1855 â 13 August 1906) was a Serbian realist and comedy writer.
Stevan Sremac was born in Senta in BaÃÂka region (then part of the Austrian Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar) on 11 November 1855. Stevan Sremac had a brother, Andrija Sremac, who later became a wealthy man and lived and worked in New Jersey. He was the 1st vice-president of the Serbian National Defense Council (Srpska Narodna Odbrana).
He spent his early childhood in the city of his birth, and moved to Belgrade to study after his mother died.
While still a university student, he joined the Serbian Army and participated in the 1876 and 1877âÂÂ1878 wars as a volunteer. In 1878 he graduated from Belgrade's Grande ÃÂcole (Velika à ¡kola) in philosophy and history.
He became a teacher, working in this profession for the rest of his lifeâÂÂin the southern Serbia's cities of Pirot, Nià ¡ and Belgrade.
In political sense, he was an activist of Liberal party (Serbia), which was pretty conservative with strong nationalist sentiments and supported the rule of the ObrenoviÃÂ dynasty. In 1906 he became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Sremac died accidentally of blood poisoning in Sokobanja on 12 August 1906.
Sremac's period spent in Nià ¡ was his most productive period. During this period, he published Boà ¾iÃÂna peÃÂenica (1893), Ivkova slava (1895), Vukadin (1903), Limunacija na selu (1896), Pop ÃÂira i pop Spira (1898), ÃÂiÃÂa Jordan (1903), and Zona Zamfirova (1906).
Stevan Sremac's characters are usually small merchants, clerks, priests, artists, and just simple folk in small Serbian towns. The plots are placed in his native Vojvodina, BaÃÂka in particular, Belgrade, and mostly, southern parts of Serbia.
Many of his works were turned into films; his most popular novel Pop ÃÂira i pop Spira was made into TV series in 1980s, while feature films Zona Zamfirova (2002) and Ivkova slava (2005), both by director Zdravko à  otra saw huge success in Serbia and Montenegro.
He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.