Srpska književna zadruga

2017 post stamp of Serbia celebrating 125th anniversary

The Srpska književna zadruga (Serbian-Cyrillic: Српска књижевна задруга; English: Serbian Literary Cooperative) is Serbia's second oldest still existing publishing house after Matica srpska.

The cooperative was founded in Belgrade on 29th April 1892 in 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.[1][2][3]

Among the numerous publications of the Literary Cooperative can be found many translated works of international writers such as Jorge Amado, Ludovico Ariosto, Thomas Babington Macauley, 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, 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.[4]

Presidents of the cooperative

References

  1. ↑ The Serbian Literary Cooperative, A brief historical overview (PDF, in English) on the Official Website by Srpska književna zadruga, retrieved on 2017-10-25.
  2. ↑ Report on the 125th anniversary on the Website by RTS, retrieved on 2017-10-26.
  3. ↑ Lex specialis за Српску књижевну задругу (Lex specialis for the Serbian Literary Cooperative), Article by Politika of 25 April 2017, retrieved on 2017-10-26.
  4. ↑ Catalogue of National Library of Serbia, retrieved on 2017-10-26.
  5. ↑ Predsednici (Председници) on the Official Website by Srpska književna zadrugaretrieved on 2017-10-25.
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