Vladimir Bovan (University of Priština) of the Autonomous Region of Kosovo-Metohija (Kosmet) is a professor of folk literature, with a strong interest in the Serbian oral literature of Kosovo-Metohija, which he has collected and on which he has published extensively. His eight-volume edition and study of major and minor folk genres, published in 1980, is indispensable to an understanding of the Serbian folk traditions of this region and Yugoslav folklore in general.