Srpska književna zadruga
The Serbian Literary Guild (Srpska književna zadruga, SKZ) is Serbia's oldest writers' association and the second-oldest publishing house after Matica srpska.
Srpska književna zadruga

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- Serbian Literary Guild
- Founded
- 1892
- Headquarters
- Serbia
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The Serbian Literary Guild (Srpska književna zadruga, SKZ) is Serbia's oldest writers' association and the second-oldest publishing house after Matica srpska.
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• Name — Serbian Literary Guild • Location — Serbia • Native Name — Српска књижевна задруга • Headquarters — Kralja Milana 19, Belgrade • Key People — Milovan Danojlić • Website — srpskaknjizevnazadruga.com
History
History
It was founded in Belgrade on 29 April 1892 in the no longer existing building of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts by sixteen prominent people of the cultural, scientific and political life of that time. Since its inception, the traditional institution has edited works by both Serbian and international authors and finally contributed to promotion and dissemination of Serbian and other translated world's literature. The traditional corporation has thus made an important contribution to the Serbian cultural life for more than a century. The cooperative's coat of arms was designed by Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. During the Kingdom of Serbia the Guild had 11,000 members in Serbia and the Balkans and operated as a major publishing house, but its actual role was that of an educational institution that carefully fostered national culture and ideas of South-Slavic unity as well. The Guild translated numerous Greek and Roman classics as well as French literature of the time. Their works were smuggled in Slavic provinces under Austrian rule, as the Austrian authorities considered the works to be liberally and nationally charged. Among the numerous publications of the Literary Cooperative can be found many translated works of international writers such as Jorge Amado, Ludovico Ariosto, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Beaumarchais, Lord Byron, Luís Vaz de Camões, Albert Camus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Paul Claudel, James Fenimore Cooper, Alphonse Daudet, Charles Dickens, Charles Diehl, Maurice Druon, George Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Euripides, Richard J. Evans, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Goldsmith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Handke, Thomas Hardy, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Søren Kierkegaard, Rudyard Kipling, David Lodge, Thomas Babington Macaulay, André Malraux, Christopher Marlowe, Herman Melville, Prosper Mérimée, Molière, Eugene O’Neill, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, France Prešeren, Francisco de Quevedo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isak Samokovlija, Friedrich von Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, Albert Schweitzer, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, Hippolyte Taine, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, François Villon, Virgil, Oscar Wilde and Thomas Wolfe.
Presidents
Presidents
• Stojan Novaković, 1892—1895 • Ljubomir Kovačević, 1895—1898 • Pera Đorđević, 1898—1902 • Ljubomir Stojanović, 1902—1904 • Ljubomir Jovanović, 1904—1906 • Dobroslav Ružić, 1906—1908 • Stojan Novaković, 1908—1915 • Sreta Stojković, 1920—1928 • Pavle Popović, 1928—1937 • Marko Car, 1937—1941 • Tihomir Đorđević, 1941—1942 • Veljko Petrović, 1945—1952 • Miloš N. Đurić, 1952—1957 • Vojislav Đurić, 1957—1961 • Milan Đoković, 1961—1962 • Svetislav Đurić, 1962—1966 • Milan Đoković, 1966—1969 • Dobrica Ćosić, 1969—1972 • Risto Tošović, 1973—1986 • Radovan Samardžić, 1988—1994 • Branko V. Radičević, 1995—1997 • Novica Petković, 1997—1999 • Milisav Savić, 2000—2001 • Slavenko Terzić, 2001—2005 • Slobodan Rakitić, 2005—2013 • Milovan Danojlić, 2013–

Front page of the Službeni list Srpske književne zadruge for 1 March 1910.
Karlovci Gymnasium

This is the front side of a Srpska književna zadruga (Serbian Literary Guild) membership card owned by author Prvoslav Vujcic.
Djuradj Vujcic · photo by Djuradj Vujcic
Institutional history
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1892
Srpska književna zadruga established.
1892
Srpska književna zadruga is recorded from 1892.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 4182621-8, Srpska Književna Zadruga. Archiv.
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- 1.En français, la coopérative est aussi connue sous les noms de « Compagnie serbe de littérature » ou « Association littéraire serbe ».
- 2.Istorijat - 128 godina Srpske književne zadruge. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 3.Milovan Danojlić. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 4.Stojan Novaković. Site de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts.
- 5.Stojan Novaković and his age. Site de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts.
- 6.Stojan Novaković a également été ministre de l'Éducation et ministre de l'Intérieur du royaume de Serbie.
- 7.Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. Site de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts.
- 8.Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, qui était médecin, a également été président du Tekelijanum et dramaturge pour le Théâtre national de Belgrade.
- 9.Ljubomir Jovanović. Site de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts.
- 10.Ljubomir Jovanović a également été ministre de l'Intérieur, ministre de l'Éducation, membre du Conseil d'État et professeur à la Haute école de Belgrade.
- 11.120 godina Srpske književne zadruge. Site de l'Église orthodoxe serbe. 18 décembre 2012.
- 12.Dimitrije Obradović est le nom de naissance de Dositej Obradović.
- 13.Život i priključenija Dimitria Obradovića. 1833.
- 14.Pravila SKZ. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 15.Le kolo est une sorte de danse en ronde, classée en 2017 sur la liste du Patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'Humanité.
- 16.Kolo. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 17.Zabavnik. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 18.Posebna izdanja. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 19.Istorija Srpske književne zadruge. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 20.Poučnik. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 21.Poučnik. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 22.Bosna i Hercegovina. Srpska književna zadruga. 1925.
- 23.Plemeniti minerali i drago kamenje. Srpska književna zadruga. 1925.
- 24.Le minéralogiste Sava Urošević était membre de l'Académie serbe des sciences
- 25.Presednici. Srpska književna zadruga. 1932.
- 26.La photographie de Milovan Danojlić a été prise dans la bibliothèque du Musée de la littérature serbe, géré par l'association Adligat.
- 27.103. Kolo (2011). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 28.Miloš Blagojević a notamment participé à la rédaction de lIstorija srpskog naroda, publié par la Srpska književna zadruga à partir de 1981
- 29.104. Kolo (2012). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 30.Milivoj Srebro. Radulović, Jovan (1951-2018). serbica.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr. Serbica - Université Bordeaux-Montaigne.
- 31.105. Kolo (2013). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 32.Le livre a été écrit à l'occasion du anniversaire de la naissance de Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. La notice de la Srpska književna zadruga considère ce prince-évêque du Monténégro comme .
- 33.106. Kolo (2013). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 34.Cet ouvrage est une édition traduite en serbe des Élégies du poète latin Properce.
- 35.Dobitnik Nagrade Desanka Maksimović (2014). zdm.nb.rs. Site de la Fondation Desanka Maksimović.
- 36.Petru Pajiću nagrada Desanka Maksimović. blic.rs. Blic. 8 mai 2014.
- 37.En 2014, Petar Pajić a remporté le prix Desanka-Maksimović.
- 38.107. Kolo (2015). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 39.L'ouvrage se présente comme une chronique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, passée aux côtés de Draža Mihailović, le commandant en chef des Tchetniks, une armée de résistants royalistes.
- 40.Zoran Radisavljević. Srpska književnost se nije umorila. politika.rs. Politika. 26 février 2016.
- 41.108. Kolo (2016). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 42.109. Kolo (2017). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 43.Grozdani Olujić nagrada "Bora Stanković". b92.net. B92. 16 mars 2018.
- 44.En 2018, Grozdana Olujić a reçu le prix Bora-Stanković pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, avec une mention particulière pour son roman Preživeti do sutra (Survivre jusqu'à demain), paru en 2017.
- 45.Les Lauriers de la montagne est une œuvre poétique du prince-évêque du Monténégro Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, publiée en 1847 ; en français le recueil du poète est également connu sous le nom de La Couronne de la montagne ou La Couronne des montagnes.
- 46.110. Kolo (2018). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 47.Le titre de cette traduction des poèmes de Catulle est une citation de la pièce 85 ; ( )
- 48.111. Kolo (2019). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 49.Justin Popović (1894-1979) est considéré comme un saint par l'Église orthodoxe serbe
- 50.112. Kolo (2020). Srpska književna zadruga.
- 51.Cet ouvrage est en fait une traduction de la thèse présentée par Grgur Jakšić à la Sorbonne en 1907 et publié chez Hachette la même année ; toujours en 1907, l'historien a reçu un prix de l'Académie française pour ce livre.
- 52.Istorijska izdanja. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 53.L'empire en question est l'Empire ottoman et le « siècle » le .
- 54.Istorijska misao. Srpska književna zadruga.
- 55.Književna misao. Srpska književna zadruga.
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