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
- ^ a b "Pergalė - Catalog". University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ Žurnalistikos enciklopedija. ("Encyclopedia of Journalism") – Vilnius, Pradai, 1997
- ^ Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (2011). Transitions of Lithuanian Postmodernism: Lithuanian Literature in the Post-Soviet Period. Rodopi. p. 85. ISBN 978-94-012-0728-7. Retrieved 23 April 2015.