For more than 70 years, CHF has been helping to preserve our community, regardless of the thousands of kilometers often separating individual Croatian groups. During the Easter holidays, we are aware of this more than usual. We are convinced that we will continue to help preserve and enhance the sense of closeness of our entire nation
DetailsThe cover and articles of this issue are a tribute to Croatian Language Month. From the Bosnia and Herzegovina edition of Večernji list newspaper, we “borrowed” an interview with Jelena Nadinić, PhD, from Buenos Aires, one of the participants in the 5th Croatian Emigrant Congress to be held in Mostar
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DetailsContinuing a long line of people of Croatian descent (about 180,000 people) who are part of the Chilean history and the Chilean people, such as writer Antonio Skármeta, sculptor Lily Garafulic, senator Radomiro Tomic and entrepreneurs Baburica and Lukšić, the new Chilean president begins his five-year term on March 11
DetailsFigures and events in focus include Chile’s president-elect Gabriel Boric Font, the life and work of recently deceased eminent Croatian historian Ivan Čizmić, Vladimir Peter Goss’ excellent review of Božo Skoko’s Strateško komuniciranje država (“Strategic State Communication”), and a look at the work of artist Slavko Kopač, currently featured at a Zagreb exhibition.
DetailsA seven member panel met on 16 February to award the Metron Croatian Centre’s culture prize for 2021. The panel unanimously voted to award the Metron prize posthumously to Antonio Sammartino, an activist from the Molise Croatian enclave in southern Italy.
DetailsMuch of the book is dedicated to essays that treat literature created abroad by people of Croatian extraction, on which her work as a researcher is focused. Among these are German authors such as Nela Stipančić Radonić and Adolf Polegubić, Ljerka Toth Naumova of North Macedonia, Australians Drago Šaravanja and Vladimir Jakopanec, Adrian Vuksanović from Montenegro, and Chileans Andrés Morales Milohnić, Sergio Vodanović, Eugenio Mimica Barassi, Guillermo Mimica and Vesna Mimica.
DetailsAlong with the prestigious annual science prize (2005) awarded by our science, education and sports ministry, Čizmić was a recipient of a national decoration for his scholarly work (the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Ruđer Bošković, received in 1999), and a number of professional awards and prizes.
DetailsWith faith in unity and the triumph of good we look forward to the coming light and the birth of new life. These holidays show us how to stand by one another when pestilence imposes restrictions upon human interaction. Let us, then, demonstrate how much we mean to one another, both in the homeland and in distant corners of the world.
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Prominent publicist, diplomat and politician Domagoj Ante Petrić died in his native Zagreb in his 83rd year, having spent half a century of the prime of his life abroad, living and working in Argentina.
DetailsThe October issue showcases the Riječina River. The cover illustrations feature the work of designer Diana Sokolić and potter Adam Dworski. Theodor de Canziani tells of the history of this short river and the Port city of Rijeka where it meets the Adriatic Sea.
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