Croatian Writers' Association

In 1897 the Croatian Writers' Club (Klub hrvatskih književnika) unofficially operated as part of the Association of Croatian Artists (Društvo hrvatskih umjetnika ), and was led by Milivoj Dežman. In 1898 the first informal agreement on the establishment of the Croatian Writers' Association was held, and a regulatory proposal was written. Matica hrvatska in 1899 approved the establishment of a separate Association, and on March 17, 1900 the government approved its rules. Rules established four categories of members: real members (pravi članovi), association founders (zakladnici), founders (utemeljitelji) and associate members (izvanredni članovi). At the inaugural meeting on April 2, 1900, held in the presence of 103 writers, Ivan Trnski was elected for the first president of the Association. In 1906 a monthly Contemporary (Savremenik) was launched. At the end of the 1908 the series Modern Croatian Writers (Suvremeni hrvatski pisci) was established, which was particularly prominent under the editorship of Julije Benešić (1909–1920). It was in that series that the famous anthology Croatian Young Lyric (Hrvatska mlada lirika ) was published in 1914. ==Association today==

The association has regional chapters in Pula, Rijeka, Zadar, Split, Osijek and Čakovec. It issues several magazines: Bridge (Most), Republic (Republika) and Korabljica. The series Contemporary Croatian Writers has been renewed under the name Library of the Croatian Writers' Association (Knjižnica Društva hrvatskih književnika). Several literary awards have been established. ==Presidents==

• Stjepan Miletić • Natko Nodilo • Ksaver Šandor Gjalski (twice) • Nikola Andrić (twice) • Branimir Livadić • Mihovil Nikolić • Milutin Cihlar Nehajev • Milivoj Dežman • Stjepan Trontl • Franjo Fancev • Ilija Jakovljević • Mile Budak • Luka Perković (1945–1948) • Slavko Kolar (1948–1952) • Ivan Dončević (1952) • Petar Šegedin (1953, 1968–1970) • Mirko Božić (1954, 1959–1960) • Miroslav Feldman (1955) • Vjekoslav Kaleb (1956) • Marijan Matković (1957–1958) • Jure Kaštelan (1961) • Dobriša Cesarić (1962) • Dragutin Tadijanović (1963) • Gustav Krklec (1964, 1974–1976) • Vlatko Pavletić (1965–1968) • Ivo Frangeš (1970–1972) • Jure Franičević-Pločar (1972–1974) • Josip Barković (1976–1977) • Milivoj Slaviček (1978–1979) • Šime Vučetić (1980–1981) • Pero Budak (1982–1984) • Marija Peakić Mikuljan (1985–1989) • Nedjeljko Fabrio (1989–1995) • Ante Stamać (1995–1999) • Slavko Mihalić (1999–2005) • Stjepan Čuić (2005–2008) • Borben Vladović (2008–2011) • Božidar Petrač (2011–2017) • Zlatko Krilić (2020–2023) • Hrvojka Mihanović Salopek (2023-) ==See also==