Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcndpy
The World of Children’s Literature in Zlata Kolarić-Kišur’s Inheritance
Jasenka Bešlić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5385-0146
; Gradska knjižnica i čitaonica Požega, Požega, Hrvatska
Abstract
Based on Zlata Kolarić-Kišur’s inheritance collection, which is kept in the Possegana Heritage Corpus at the Požega Public Library, the author aims at pointing out to the greatly desired “return” of Zlata Kolarić-Kišur to the Golden Valley, through items and library corpus that the Požega Public Library had received as a separate part of the Heritage Corpus. Since the inheritance collection contains photographs, personal items, a part of Kolarić-Kišur’s library, her copyrighted works, press clippings about her works and activity, manuscripts – both published and unpublished, personal correspondence and family documents, the author of the paper decided to present the part of the collection related to children’s literature. She first explains the motive (when and why Zlata Kolarić-Kišur started to write children’s literature), the origin of all of her creative work for children – her childhood in Požega in the Golden Valley, and subsequently presents all of her literary works for children, which form a part of the Possegana Heritage Corpus through the inheritance collection. The author also extracts articles referring to her literary work for children from a very rich newspaper and periodicals library. She reminds of Zlata Kolarić-Kišur’s texts that have been set to music. An important segment of this paper is Zlata Kolarić-Kišur’s role in the educational context, i.e. the representation of her texts in schoolbooks and children’s magazines and newspapers. The author further highlights the part of the collection related to Kolarić-Kišur’s communication with her audience, both young and grown-up. She was a professional writer, and thanks to the preserved documents, the author speaks about the status of writers in the period when Kolarić-Kišur worked and wrote.
Zlata Kolarić-Kišur’s inheritance collection, which is kept in Požega Public Library as a valuable source of information on her life and work, presents precious inheritance available to all. However, in order to make it completely visible, it should be digitized.
Keywords
Zlata Kolarić-Kišur; children’s literature; Požega; inheritance; Požega Public Library; Possegana heritage; childhood in Požega; correspondence; newspaper and periodicals library
Hrčak ID:
192967
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Publication date:
17.1.2018.
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