Goranovo proljeće is a Croatian national poetry festival that has been held annually since 1964 on the birthday of Ivan Goran Kovačić, the 21st of March (later also World Poetry Day, sometimes the March equinox),
As a part of the festival, the , not to be confused with the young poet's award introduced by the festival in 1977, was first presented on 1 January 1965 as "Vjesnikova nagrada" by Vjesnik. The name changed to its current form in 1990. It has been awarded for best anthology of the previous year 42 times as of 2025:
1965: Petar Šegedin 1966: Ranko Marinković 1967: Meša Selimović 1968: Miroslav Krleža 1969: 1970: 1971: Tomislav Ladan 1972: Karlo Štajner 1973: Marko Ristić 1974: 1975: Oskar Davičo 1976: Mirko Božić 1977: Danilo Kiš 1978: 1979: Jure Kaštelan 1980: Jara Ribnikar 1981: Sreten Asanović 1982: Vojin Jelić 1983: Mihailo Lalić 1984: 1985: Ivan Aralica 1986: 1987: Irena Vrkljan 1988: Vesna Krmpotić 1989: Borislav Pekić 1993: Ranko Marinković 1998: 2000: 2002: 2003: 2004: Renato Baretić 2005: 2006: Dubravka Oraić Tolić, Ivana Sajko 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2011: Dubravka Ugrešić 2019: Martina Vidaić 2021: Evelina Rudan 2023: Senko Karuza 2025: Marija Andrijašević
The award was first awarded in 1971, and was won by the following for their lifetime corpus (made biennial in 2018):
1971: 1972: Pero Zubac 1973: 1974: Dobrica Erić 1975: Ahmed Muhamed Imamović 1976: Dobriša Cesarić 1977: Vesna Parun 1978: Jagoda Zamoda 1979: 1980: Dane Zajc 1981: Dušan Kostić 1982: Dragutin Tadijanović 1983: 1984: 1985: Stevan Raičković 1986: Jure Kaštelan 1987: Mateja Matevski 1988: Oskar Davičo 1989: 1990: 1991: Ivan Slamnig 1992: 1993: Antun Šoljan 1994: 1995: Luko Paljetak 1996: 1997: 1998: 1999: Zvonimir Mrkonjić 2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: Arsen Dedić 2004: 2005: 2006: 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2011: 2012: Stjepan Gulin 2013: 2014: 2015: 2016: 2017: Dorta Jagić 2018: 2020: 2022: Vesna Biga 2024: Miroslav Kirin
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