In the latest issue read all about the Večernji List Domovnica Awards ceremony, a visit by President Grabar-Kitarović to members of the Croatian community in Sweden, the 90th anniversary of the work of Croatian Franciscan monks in the USA and much, much more.
Jure Dragičević addressed everyone who gathered to celebrate Katalinić’s birthday, while Tomislav Frković read a poem penned by Malkica Dugeč of Stuttgart in his honour.
The screening of a short film by Branka Bezić Filipović on the life of this major Chilean writer of Croatian extraction was followed by a presentation by the students on her literary oeuvre and work as a journalist.
Stockholm Croatian Catholic Mission head Stjepan Biletić was awarded the Order of the Croatian Morning Star with the image of Katarina Zrinski, Federation of Croatian Associations in Sweden president Diana Vukušić received the Order of the Croatian Interlace, while the Matija Gubec Croatian Culture Society of Stockholm was presented with a Charter of the Republic of Croatia.
La orden del Lucero Croata con el rostro de Katarina Zrinski fue entregada a Stjepan Biletić, director de la MCC en Estocolmo, la Orden de la Guarda Croata, a la presidente de la Unión de Asociaciones Croatas en Suecia, Diana Vukušić, y la Carta de la República de Croacia, a la Asociación Cultural Croata „Matija Gubec“, de Estocolmo
In the latest issue read all about the promotion of the 2017 Croatian Emigrant Almanac, the hundred-year commemoration of friar Didak Buntić’s campaign to save starving children, the passing of Croatian political torchbearer and dissident prisoner under the former communist regime Marko Veselica, the honouring of Aloysius Stepinac in the diaspora community parishes and much, much more.
Temporary student ID cards were issued to the eighteen State Office for Croats Abroad scholarship recipients, most coming from South American countries, so that they can take advantage of the subsidised meals provided to students.
On hand for the gala event was Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić, Croatian foreign and European affairs minister Davor Ivo Stier, Croatian Heritage Foundation director Mirjana Piskulić and Zvonko Milas, state secretary at Croatian Government’s State Office for Croats Abroad.
Tarle was on hand in person to promote her latest novel at the Croatian Centre in Vienna at an event moderated by Hrvatske novine magazine editor Petar Tyran.
Writer, journalist and professor Luka Brajnović was one of the founders of a department of journalistic ethics in Pamplona and has had an international journalism prize named in his honour. He retired in 1992 as a full university professor.
