Veljko Petrovic (1884-1967), a Sombor born poet, narrator, publicist, literary and visual arts critic, arts historian, encyclopaedist, journalist, one of the most fertile and one of the best authors in Serbian literature of the XX century. The memory to this notable man was unveiled in front of the City Library “Karlo Bijelicki” in 2017 and is the work of art by Igor Šeter, a sculptor from Sombor. A Serbian academician Miro Vuksanović spoke at the ceremony. “…into the middle of the Town that in his short stories becomes the capital of Serbian literature, finally, but albeit at the right time, by right and by merits, Veljko Petrović has arrived as the spitting image of himself, and by the hardships of the people who used to say, as he also did for all the times, that this town – Sombor of Mine, is in fact Ravangrad
of Mine”. In his work, Veljko Petrović made Sombor famous as Ravangrad.