Marko Car (writer)

Marko Car (born Herceg Novi, Austrian Empire, 1859 - died Belgrade, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1953) was a Serb and Montenegrin writer and activist from the Bay of Kotor. He was a plolyglot and an esthaetic essayist, writing numerous poems, critics, novels, narratives, essays and travel reports. During his age, he wrote for many newspapers and magazines.

He passed away in 1953 in the Yugoslav and Serbian capital of Belgrade. His remains were moved to Montenegro to the countryside of his birth and he was buried in the Savina Monastery.

Although born a Roman Catholic Christian, he converted before death to Eastern Orthodoxy, claiming that that was the only way to save the Catholic-Serb community from extinction and avoid assimilation into Croats, which he had claimed was occurring in the Bocca. His movement didn't have significant impact outside his native Dalmatian coastland, but in there a significant number of Catholics converted to Orthodox Christians considering it a confirmation of their Serbian national identity and affiliation.

A street in Herceg Novi's Old City bears his name in his honor. In it is also a bust raised in his honor by Peter Palaviccini not long after Car's death.