The Otokar Keršovani Prize is a life achievement award for Journalism in
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
, administered by the
Croatian Journalists' Association
The Croatian Journalists' Association ( or HND) is a Croatian association based in Zagreb aimed at promoting freedom of the press and free speech in journalism.
The association was founded in December 1910 and has over 3,000 members. It arranges ...
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/ref> The award is decided by a jury, i. e. by two-thirds majority vote of the attending members. The award consists of an acknowledgment and monetary amount.
Winners
*1965/1966 Mirko Peršen
*1966/1967
*1967/1968 Neda Krmpotić
Neda Krmpotić (Senj, 16 October 1921 – Zagreb, 22 June 1974) was a Croatian and Yugoslav journalist. She was a contributor and domestic politics editor in Jugopress news agency from 1952 to 1958, before moving on to work in ''Vjesnik'' as a con ...
*1968/1969
*1969/1970 Joško Palavršić
*1970/1971
*1971/1972 not assigned
*1972/1973
*1973/1974 Zvonko Kristl
*1974/1975 Šime Mihovilović
*1975/1976 Mladen Delić
Mladen Delić (15 January 1919 – 22 February 2005) was a Croatian sports commentator.
He studied law at the University of Belgrade, but switched to the School of physical education and sport in Belgrade where he graduated in 1938. From 1946 t ...
*1976/1977 Drago Bobić
*1977/1978 Marko Vojković
*1978/1979 Ivo Braut, Risto Krunić, Stevo Ostojić
*1979/1980 Ivan Filipović, Frane Jurić,
*1980/1981 Branko Knezoci, Stjepan Tucak, Miljenko Smoje
Miljenko Smoje (14 February 1923 – 25 October 1995) was a Croatian writer and journalist.
Biography
Smoje was born in Split, at the time in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in a family of poor labourers. The neighbourhood where he grew up was kn ...
*1981/1982 Milan Bekić, , Ante Kesić
*1982/1983 Drago Auguštin, Tomo Đurinović,
*1983/1984 Ante Gavranović, Filip Svetić, Žarko Božić
*1984/1985 Darko Grubačević, Josip Grubišić-Ćabo,
*1985/1986 Željko Brihta, Emil Piršl, Josip Šmit
*1986/1987 , Joško Kulušić, Ivo Strahonja
*1987/1988 Joža Vlahović
*1988/1989 Živko Vnuk
*1989/1990 Mira Boglić
*1990/1991
*1991/1992 Alojz Ševčik
*1993
*1993 Krešimir Džeba
Krešimir Džeba (Dubrovnik, 27 August 1935 – Graz, 11 March 1993) was a Croatian and Yugoslav journalist and politician. In 1954, Džeba graduated from the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb and started working in ''Vjesnik' ...
(posthumously)
*1994
*1995 Bože V. Žigo
*1996 Mirjana Rakić
*1997 Veljko Vičević
*1998
*1999 Jovan Hovan
*2000
*2001 Branko Lentić
*2002
*2003
*2004
*2005 Igor Mandić
Igor Mandić (20 November 1939 – 13 March 2022) was a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist. According to Croatian historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić was the most important and the most versatile anti Croatian newspa ...
*2006
*2007 Inoslav Bešker
Inoslav Bešker (30 January 1950 – 29 June 2023) was a Croatian and Italian journalist and academic.Bilješka o piscu, in: Bešker, Inoslav, ''Mediteran u književnosti'', Zagreb, 2021: 231.
Bešker started his journalistic career in 1967. Fr ...
*2008
*2009 Milan Gavrović
*2010
*2011
*2012 Giga Gračan
*2013 Branko Šuljić
*2014 Drago Hedl
*2015
*2016
*2017
*2018 Sanja Modrić
*2019
*2020 Mato Jerkić
Sources
Nagrade HND
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.midas-press.org/en/OttovonHabsburgPrizeforJournalism/Pages/default.aspx /
European journalism awards