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| Editor | Cultural Center |
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| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Country | Serbia |
| Based in | Novi Sad |
| Language | Serbian |
| ISSN | 0032-3578 |
Polja (Serbian-Cyrillic: поља; English: Fields) is a Serbian literary magazine.
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| Editor | Cultural Center |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Country | Serbia |
| Based in | Novi Sad |
| Language | Serbian |
| ISSN | 0032-3578 |
Polja (Serbian-Cyrillic: поља; English: Fields) is a Serbian literary magazine.
In 1955, the magazine of literature and theory (Serbian: Časopis za književnost i teoriju; Часопис за књижевност и теорију) was launched as a cultural initiative in the creative framework of the program Tribina mladih (The Tribune of Youth) by the Cultural Center of Novi Sad. Over the decades, Polja has received supraregional recognition. The magazine presents cultural currents and features authors in the fields of literature, cultural theory and literary criticism. It has a history of providing a platform for social criticism, which reflects the social and political situation in the country and the culture of its time. The editing history of its elaboration illustrates a specific cultural-theoretical aspect of the magazine and its editorships: the content was distributed in various periods either in Latin (No. 1/1955 – No. 398/1992, 2001 — No. 479/2013) or Cyrillic (No. 399/1992 – 2000, No. 480/2013 – No. 496/2015) scripture, which in fact its significance in Serbian cultural reality had neither enhanced nor decreased.
The journal has published numerous texts by contemporary authors from Serbia and other countries of the world. The editorial-staff of the magazine presented some international authors for the first time in Serbia by publishing translated texts thereby making aware of them. The compiled texts by domestic and foreign authors contrast the artistic field of tension in contemporary literature as well as its different aesthetic and philosophical fundamentals as a mirror of Serbia's society on the way to an open society. The international authors represented include personalities such as Venero Armanno, Nancy Armstrong, John Barth, Walter Benjamin, Terry Eagleton, Dan Fante, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Giraudoux, Kenneth Goldsmith, Günter Kunert, Haruki Murakami, Adrienne Rich, Edward Said, W. G. Sebald, William Trevor, Franz Werfel and Slavoj Žižek.
Since its inception, the publication has been produced by several printing houses in Vrbas, Novi Sad (Sajnos since 2008) and Sremska Kamenica. The first editor-in-chief was female and a member of the Romanian minority in Vojvodina. The poet Maja Solar was member of the editorial-board from 2007 to 2014. The literary scholar Sonja Veselinović has been a member of the editorial board since 2007, and the poet Marjan Čakarević since 2014. The journal's graphic appearance has been designed by painter Maja Erdeljanin since 2007. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia after the capital Belgrade and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannonian Plain on the border of the Bačka and Syrmia geographical regions. Lying on the banks of the Danube river, the city faces the northern slopes of Fruška Gora and it is the fifth largest of all cities on the Danube river. It is the largest Danube city that is not the capital of an independent state.
The Matica srpska is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national institution. It was founded on June 1, 1826, in Pest by the Serbian habsburg legislator Jovan Hadžić and other prominent members of the Serbian Revolution and National Revival. The Matica was moved to Novi Sad in 1864. It is the oldest matica in the world.
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Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was "the first woman academic in the history of Serbia" after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.
Jovan Zivlak, is a Serbian poet, publisher and essayist.
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Milan Orlić is a Serbian poet, writer and publisher.
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Mladen Dražetin was a Serbian economist, theatrical creator, poet, writer and philosopher. His father Rada was a courier in the Local Community Office in Mošorin, while his mother Vukica was from Sombor. He left behind works of poetry, prose, drama and philosophy. He was the creator of the Correspondence Theatre, a specific type of theater organization and play, which he conceived and organized in 1974.
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Sonja Veselinović is a Serbian writer and assistant professor of comparative literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad.
Žaneta Đukić-Perišić is a Serbian literary scholar and literary historian.
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