Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, članstvo u Akademiji i Nobelova nagrada
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Academy Membership and the Nobel Prize

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers an analysis of documents and meeting records related to the election of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić to the South Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. The survey of the records and the Academy register reveals that Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was accepted as a corresponding member of the Academy when she was nominated for the second time, in 1937, being the first woman to be awarded the honour. Scrutiny of the letters and documents related to the Nobel Prize for Literature nominations of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić shows that there were four nominations for her in all. The first two nominations (in 1931 and in 1935) were signed by Gavro Manojlović, President of the Academy at the time, and the other two nominations (in 1937 and in 1938) were signed both by Manojlović and by Albert Bazala, who had become President of the Academy by that time. Neither of these proposals was officially initiated by the Academy. The final section of the paper is dedicated to an analysis of Gavro Manojlović’s treatise on Brlić-Mažuranić’s masterpiece, Tales of Long Ago, which was included in the Nobel Prize nomination documents.

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