Pergalė

Pergalė (meaning Victory in English) was a literary magazine in Soviet Lithuania issued between 1942 and 1990.

Profile

Pergalė was started in 1942[1] as a literary supplement to the army newspaper Motherland is Calling ("Tėvynė šaukia") of the 16th "Lithuanian" Rifle Division (Soviet Union), hence the name.[2] The magazine had its headquarters in Vilnius.[1] It included articles about nature in addition to those on literary work.[3]

Editors in chief
  • Juozas Pajaujis – 1942
  • Kostas Korsakas – 1943–1944
  • Petras Cvirka – 1945
  • Juozas Baltušis – 1946–1954
  • Jonas Šimkus – 1954–1958
  • Vladas Mozūriūnas – 1958–1964
  • Algimantas Baltakis – 1964–1976, 1985–1990
  • Juozas Macevičius – 1976–1985
  • Juozas Aputis – 1990

See also

References
  1. "Pergalė - Catalog". University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. Žurnalistikos enciklopedija. ("Encyclopedia of Journalism") – Vilnius, Pradai, 1997
  3. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (2011). Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period. Rodopi. p. 85. ISBN 94-012-0728-3. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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