Association of Writers of Yugoslavia

Following the 1948 Tito-Stalin split increased plurality developed in Yugoslav literature with Miroslav Krleža's speech at the Third Congress of the Association in Ljubljana in 1952, which epitomised artistic distancing from previously promoted socialist realism. In 1956, the Association sent Petar Guberina as the Yugoslav observer representative to the Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris who attended the second Congress in Rome in 1959 as well. In 1958, the Association nominated Yugoslav author Ivo Andrić as its first ever candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a prize he would receive in 1961. In 1966 the Association broke off all formal relations with the Union of Writers of Bulgaria after Bulgarian partners rejected to sign a document in Macedonian language. Relations were not re-established until the end of the existence of the Association as the Yugoslav side insisted that all of the agreements will be signed in Bulgarian and Macedonian language. ==Congresses==

• 1st Congress, Belgrade, PR Serbia (17–19 November 1946) :::The event took place at the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment building with 40 delegates from Serbia, 40 from Croatia, 25 from Slovenia, 9 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 6 from Vojvodina, 6 from Macedonia and 3 from Montenegro in attendance as well as guests from embassies of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary with writer delegates from those countries as well as from Poland and USSR. Delegates included minority communities representatives for Hungarians, Romanians and Slovaks. • 3rd Congress, Ljubljana, PR Slovenia (1952) • 5th Congress, Belgrade, PR Serbia (25–28 November 1958) The first proposal by the Serbian republican branch was introduced on 20 May 1964 recommending introduction of permanent executive secretariat and obligatory rotation in leadership among republican branches. • 8th Congress, Belgrade, SR Serbia (2-4 October 1975) • 9th Congress, Novi Sad, SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia (15–20 April 1985) • 10th Congress, Vrnjačka Banja, SR Serbia (9–11 January 1990, CANCELLED ahead after Slovenian, Croatian, Kosovo and Macedonian branches refused to attend) ==Presidents==

• Ivo Andrić (1946–1952) • Josip Vidmar (1952–1958) • Aco Šopov (1968–1970) • Ivo Frangeš (1970–1972) • Gustav Krklec (1974–1977) • Sreten Asanović (1979–1981) • Duško Roksandić (1981–1982) • Azem Shkreli (1982–1983) • Kole Čašule (1984–1985) • Ciril Zlobec (1985–1986) • vacant (1986–1988); Serbian candidate Miodrag Bulatović not elected due to opposition from five out of eight republican and provincial associations (those of Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina) • Slobodan Selenić (1988–1990) • Ottó Tolnai (1990) ==See also==