‏Mir Jam‏

Mir Jam (real name Milica Jakovljevi) is Serbian author born April 22, 1887 in Jagodina , spent her childhood in Kragujevac and later in life moved to Belgrade . Mir Jam started her career as journalist . She wrote period novels and short stories set in period between two world wars.

Her work consists of easy-to-read love stories written in very picturesque and descriptive style, which brings her constant popularity to this day. The value of her work lies in detailed and realistic representation of everyday life in Yugoslavia between the World Wars. Because of this, she was nicknamed Serbian Jane Austen.

She was fluent in Russian and French. Although she frequently wrote about marriage, she was never married. She died in Belgrade on December 22, 1952. Mir-Jam was the sister of writer Stevan Jakovljevic.