In 1994, INA – Industrija nafte d.d., a company with a long tradition of nurturing Croatia'scultural heritage, and the Croatian Cultural Club, instituted the INA Award for Promotion of Croatian Culture Worldwide. The intention of the prize is to award with recognitions the authors, cultural professions and institutions that promote Croatian culture abroad, those that give testimony to the spiritual and cultural development of our nation with their work and encourage by their activities the cultural alliances of Croatia and the rest of the world.
 

INA Award for Promotion of Croatian Culture Worldwide in the year 2007
INA Award for Promotion of Croatian Culture Worldwide in the year 2007 goes to Prof. Mirjana Sanader, PhD, and her collaborators for their book entitled „Kroatien in der Antike“. In the text explaining the decision on the award winner for 2007, the jury said, inter alia: “The book „Kroatien in der Antike“, published in 2007 by the publisher Philipp von Zabern from Mainz, with 143 pages of text and 116 photographs, is a result of successful cultural cooperation between archaeologues, photographers and museums. It covers the period of Greek and Roman presence on the territory of Croatia from the 6^th century BC to the 6^th century AD, i.e., in a period of 1200 years.

On the occasion of the 2007 INA awards, the INA Corporate Communications Sector has prepared a monograph on this year's award winners, presenting their work and including an interview with Prof. Mirjana Sanader, PhD, entitled: «Growing interest for Croatian antiquity heritage», together with a summary of the contribution of each of the authors, a history of archaeological explorations on Croatian territory and a representative bibliography of their works, while photographs by Miljenko Marohnić and Ivo Pervan show the most important antiquity sites located on Croatian territory. The monograph is published both in Croatian and German with a documentary film on the 2007 INA award on a CD. The Sector has also prepared an exhibition of photographs by Miljenko Marohnić, showing all the most important antiquity sited in Croatia and the key facts on the work receiving the 2007 INA award.
 

 

President of the INA Management Board, Mr Tomislav Dragičević, PhD, stressed the following on the occasion of the award presentation to Prof. Sanader and her collaborators:
«This year's award goes to the field of archaeology, which is in a way similar to the research area that we at INA are focused on, because we both explore the soil. We do it in order to discover mining wealth that our economic development depends on, and you do it in order to discover the way of life of our ancestors and to show us our roots that our present and future are built on. In the book „Croatia in Antiquity“, you have demonstrated that Croats have inherited a rich Greek and Roman cultural tradition and have used it as one the foundations in building their future. “This book is a valuable contribution to European archeological science, and it is not without reason that it has become a bestseller among many works published by one of the largest publishers of archaological works in the world.
 

Prof Sanader expressed thanks to INA on behalf of all the award winners and said that the award would be a new encouragement for all of them as well as for Croatian archaeology, as Croatia is so rich in archaeological sites that there is still a lot of work ahead of the profession. She thanked INA, the Croatian Cultural Club and especially all her colleagues who have contributed to the success of the project that has been very well received in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

 

Text: Mijo Ivurek
Photograph: Miljenko Marohnić