Association of Writers of Vojvodina
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The Association of Writers of Vojvodina (Serbian Cyrillic: Друштво књижевника Војводине, abbreviated AWV, or, in Serbian, DKV) comprises around 490 members who write in all official languages used in Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

. The majority of them write in Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, and a significant number in Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

.

The Association has also about seventy literary translator
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

s among its members. A section of writers from Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

 seceded from the Association of Writers of Serbia in 1966, and in 1977 the Association of Writers and Literary Translators of Vojvodina was founded. The central office of the Association is at 5 Braće Ribnikar street in Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

, in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n province Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

.

The current president of DKV is Jovan Zivlak
Zivlak Jovan
-Life and career:Zivlak ended his secondary school education in Kikinda, and graduated from the University of Novi Sad with a degree in Serbian language and literature. He was editor for the magazine Polja. Zivlak was also the editor in chief of Svetovi publishing from 1985 to 2007. He is currently...

, a poet and essayist, the vice presidents are Franjo Petrinović, a writer, and Janoš Banjai, a critic and essayist.

DKV has been, during its several decades long work, the organiser of significant literary events (Literary Colony in Čortanovci, literary caravans, literary promotions, Congress of Yugoslav Writers), initiator, editor or co-editor of numerous literary publications.

The Association of Writers of Vojvodina publishes, in Serbian language, a renowned magazine "Zlatna greda"(2001) which deals with literature, art and literary theory. The editor in chief of "Zlatna greda" is Jovan Zivlak
Zivlak Jovan
-Life and career:Zivlak ended his secondary school education in Kikinda, and graduated from the University of Novi Sad with a degree in Serbian language and literature. He was editor for the magazine Polja. Zivlak was also the editor in chief of Svetovi publishing from 1985 to 2007. He is currently...

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The International Novi Sad Literature Festival
International Novi Sad Literature Festival
The International Novi Sad Literature Festival was founded by the Association of Writers of Vojvodina in 2006...

 was founded in 2006 and it represents prominent Serbian and international authors. It is held every year, in the last week of August.

The Aims of the Association

The main aims of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina:
  • promotes and affirms original literary and translational creativity;
  • protects the freedom of literary creativity and stands for favourable material and social position of literary authors;
  • takes care of protection of moral and material copyright of its members;
  • stands for cultural, national, language, religious, ethnic tolerance, tolerance of belief and equality;
  • organizes literary discussions, gatherings and public lectures;
  • deals with nonprofit publishing in order to improve and popularize and spread literature;
  • cooperates with other associations of literary authors, artistic and cultural associations, organizations and institutions in Serbia and abroad.

DKV Awards

Since 1980 DKV has been giving annual awards (for lifetime achievement), a book and translation of the year, as well as awards for the best books in languages of national minorities (Hungarian, Croatian
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

, Slovak
Slovaks
The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

, Romanian and Ruthenian
Ruthenians
The name Ruthenian |Rus']]) is a culturally loaded term and has different meanings according to the context in which it is used. Initially, it was the ethnonym used for the East Slavic peoples who lived in Rus'. Later it was used predominantly for Ukrainians...

) whose bearers have been some of the most prominent literary authors in Vojvodina. The writers who contributed to the reputation of the Association and culture in Serbia are, undoubtedly, Boško Petrović, Mladen Leskovac, Aleksandar Tišma
Aleksandar Tišma
Aleksandar Tišma was a Serbian novelist.He completed the basic and middle school in Novi Sad and studied economy and French language and literature in Budapest during World War II, to finally graduate on Germanistics from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology...

, Miroslav Antić, Imre Bori, Ferenc Feher, Radu Flora, Florika Štefan, Paljo Bohuš, Đuro Papharhaji and others.

Since its foundation, DKV has given Branko’s award to an author under the age of 30 for the best book of poetry published in Serbian, which is one of the most prestigious literary awards for young poets in Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

, i.e. in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. The first winner of this award was Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa
- Biography :Popa was born in the village of Grebenac , Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna...

 in 1954. Branko’s award has been given since 2006, at The International Novi Sad Literature Festival
International Novi Sad Literature Festival
The International Novi Sad Literature Festival was founded by the Association of Writers of Vojvodina in 2006...

, and the main award of the Festival is International Literary Award Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

. Previous laureates are Christoph Meckel
Christoph Meckel
Christoph Meckel is a German author and graphic artist.- Life :Christoph Meckel spent his youth in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München.Since 1956 he has...

, a famous German poet, Jean Pierre Faye, a poet, writer and philosopher from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and Ben Okri
Ben Okri
Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...

, a writer and poet from Nigeria
Nigeria
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, living in England
England
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