Polja ( Serbian-Cyrillic: поља;

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: Fields) is a Serbian literary magazine.

History

In 1955, the magazine of

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and

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( 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

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of Youth) by the Cultural Center of

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

. Over the decades, ''Polja'' has received supraregional recognition. The magazine presents cultural currents and features authors in the fields of literature,

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and literary criticism. It has a history of providing a platform for

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, 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

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(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,

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Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

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, W. G. Sebald,

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and Slavoj Žižek. Since its inception, the publication has been produced by several printing houses in Vrbas,

(Sajnos since 2008) and

Sremska Kamenica Sremska Kamenica (Serbian Cyrillic: ''Сремска Каменица'', ) is a town and urban neighborhood of Novi Sad, in Serbia. Name In Serbian, the town is known as ''Sremska Kamenica'' (Сремска Каменица), in Croatian a ...

. The first editor-in-chief was female and a member of the Romanian minority in

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. 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.

Editors-in-chief

* Florika Štefan (1955-1958) * Dejan Poznanović (1958-1962) * Mileta Radovanović (1962-1965) * Petar Milosavljević (1965–1968) * Pero Zubac (1968-1973) * Boško Ivkov (1973-1975) * Jaroslav Turčan (1975-1976) * Jovan Zivlak (1976-1984) * Đorđe Pisarev (1984-1985) * Franja Petrinović (1985-1996) *

Zoran Đerić Zoran Đerić was minister of the interior of the Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, t ...

(1996-2000)Biography
(in English) on the website of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina, retrieved on 2018-04-22. * Laslo Blašković (2001-2007; No. 415/2001–No.447/2007), * Alen Bešić (since No. 448/2007)

References

{{Reflist Magazines published in Serbia Literary magazines Serbian literature Magazines published in Yugoslavia Magazines established in 1955 1955 establishments in Yugoslavia Mass media in Novi Sad