A group of Montenegrin intellectuals, including writers, publicists, and painters, sent Prime Minister Duško Marković and the jury for the Njegoš Award, i.e. its Montenegrin member Vlatko Simunović, a proposal that this year's Njegoš Award be awarded posthumously to Radovan Zogović.
According to their opinion, Zogović, as a giant of Montenegrin and Yugoslav literature, deserved an award that at one time did not go to him for political reasons.
"Peter II Petrović Njegoš left behind his great political and literary work and the award that bears his name, which is awarded to the greats of South Slavic literature. Radovan Zogović is a classic of Montenegrin literature, a creator whose overall work can stand alongside Njegoš and previous winners of the Njegoš award. The creator of literature of high aesthetic and ethical scope, a language that is only his - Zogovic, which in the best way gives confirmation to the Montenegrin language, and thus to our existence," reads the statement of the signatories of the request.
As they reminded, Zogović's scattered opus consists of: poetry books: Plameni golubovi, Prokosne strophe, Articulated word, Princely office, Personally, quite personally, Supret za sutra, prose books Landscapes and something is happening, Night and half a century, Leather with half sleeves , and essayistic-critical books: On the Scene, By the Way, About Nezobilaznom, posthumously published Becoming and Existence.
"He published Montenegrin epic poems, the most studious selection and approach to our epic so far. He is the author of an exceptional study on "Mountain Wreath", Njegoš's poem about the fight for freedom, the most complex - because he understood its creator both completely and comprehensively, like no one before. " the announcement reads.
Zogović, they add, translated and published: the works of Gogol, Chekhov, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Gorky, Leonov, Aliger, Inber, Nazim Hikmet, Blaž Koneski, and his works were translated into Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Albanian, Czech, Hungarian, French, English and Italian.
As they said, it is a work of art - a monument that best profiles the being of the Montenegrin people, striving for the ethical heights that the Montenegrin people have reached, and its roots that reach deep into Montenegrin existence itself.
"Zogović is a national writer in the most beautiful sense, with universal messages that spark from Montenegrin uniqueness. There is no writer whose work, and his creator, completely identified with the country where he was born, its tradition and spirituality, so he gives us all that for the right to publicly and loudly conclude that, without the complete Zogović, neither Montenegro, nor the Montenegrin language, nor the Montenegrin people, nor the peoples who live there are complete. Zogović is a writer of all, respected by all. Only with him complete, we are complete ," reads the proposal.
According to their opinion, the current award would "correct the historical injustice done to this poet, his work and to Montenegro."
"With due respect to the propositions of the competition for awarding this high recognition to living authors, we give ourselves the right to suggest that you award this award posthumously to the poet Radovan Zogović, who was once nominated for the Njegoš Award, but unfortunately and to the shame of those who decided, he was not passed. The current award would correct the historical injustice done to this poet, the injustice to his work, the injustice to Montenegro. Zogović's work gives us the right to think, speak and propose like this. The name of Radovan Zogović is written in golden letters for all time over our of becoming and existence, so it should be inscribed with such letters on Njegoš's Billiards, among the previous winners of this award. This gives Njegoš's award a special significance, and the injustice that was done by one time, is first this, in which European Montenegro values the works of its greats, in a manner befitting both her and hers, in this case, undoubtedly, after the one whose name the award bears, the greatest Montenegrin poet - Radovan Zogović," according to the signatories of the proposal.
By awarding the award posthumously, they said, "we will confirm ourselves, the times in which we live and Montenegro, the land of poets that he loved so much, sang about and, above all, immortalized."
"In that way, the injustice would be corrected, the debt we bear would be fulfilled, responsibility would be shown before history, the world and our own conscience," they said.
They invited jury member Vlatko Simunović to introduce the proposal to the rest of the jury, to read it at the session and to stand by their proposal, which, they believe, has "historical and ethical justification and, we are convinced, plebiscite ontological support."
The signatories of the proposal to award Radovan Zogović the Njegoš award are:
- Jevrem Brković
- Rajko Cerovic
- Dimitrije Popović
- Djordje Borozan
- Miraš Martinović
- Miroslav Ćosović
- Milan Vukcevic
- Branislav Brković
- Milun Lutovac
- Alexander Chilikov
- Slobodan Cukic
- Zoran Jocovic
- Radmilo Marojević
- Aleksandra Vuković
- Tatjana Đurišić Bečanović
- Slobodan Backović
- Danijela Radojević
- Milena Burić
- Jelena Bašanović Čečović
- Žarko Radonjić
- Bozidar Šekularac
- Zorica Mrvaljević
- Marijan Miljic
- Radoje Pajović
- Vojo Stanić
- Marija Ivanovic
- Dragica Miljic
- Slobodan Simović
- Jakov Mrvaljevic
- Amer Ramusovic
- Aldemar Ibrahimović
- Mirsad Rastoder
- Milos Milosevic
- Miodrag Vlahović
- Goran Sekulović
- Nela Savkovic Vukcevic
- Boris Jovanović Kastel
- Radenko Šćekić
- Balša Brković
- Ana Kaluđerović
- Vukić Pulević
- Miodrag Koprivica
- Ranko Đonović
- Danilo Burzan
- Veso Đuranović
- Vladimir Vukcevic
- Radomir-Rajo Vulikić
- Svetozar Savić
- Gojko Kastratović
- Vukajlo Gluščević
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