242 NOVA ISTRA Literary, Art and Cultural Journal Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur Rivista di letteratura, arte e cultura Pula, Croatia / Kroatien / Croazia, No. 1/2024 Summary The beginning words in memoriam to Jure Iskra (1972 – 2024), the poet and younger colleague who passed away so suddenly and early, are followed with some recent poetry and fiction pieces of which authors come from Croatia and Montenegro. The preface to our publication Pula – izgubljeni zavičaj (Pula – The Lost Hometown / Homeland; German: Pola – verlorene Heimat) is in the next section. Its author, the Austrian engineer and university teacher Jaro Zeman (1899 – 1993), who was born in Pula, depicts the city under the Austrian Crown from the second half of the 19th century till the end of the Great War and the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in which Pula represented the important European centre, the centre of the Imperial and Royal Navy, the cosmopolitan Central European and Mediterranean centre, where shipbuilding truly flourished. The essay section then presents reviews and shorter studies about issues closely related to the recent Croatian literature (Antun Šoljan, 1932 – 1993; Ranko Marinković, 1913 – 2021; Marijan Matković, 1915 – 1985), as well as a comparative text about the historical novels by Nedjeljko Fabrio (1937 – 2018), that is, the author’s reception in Germany with a special reference to The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) by Günter Grass (1927 – 2015). Apart from these, there is also a contribution about Šoljan’s dramas translated in Polish and the problem of Croatian media in which contemporary detective stories, well-written in Croatian, are almost ignored. The following section includes the Croatian translation of a paragraph from the novel La sposa (The Bride), written in 1965 by the Italian writer Mauro Covacich, who was born in Trieste but lives in Rome. The Time Challenge section welcomes the newly-issued Act on the Croatian Language with a text providing a set of arguments that are somewhat polemical. Readers can additionally find two philosophical essays about some fundamental issues of our time, as seen, analysed and interpreted by the two Croatian philosophers who regularly co-operate with us; their names are Žarko Paić and Dragutin Lučić Luce. Considering the native land topics, this time we draw your attention to the 70th anniversary of the youth literary club, from Pula, Istria and Croatia, well-known as Istarski borac. This club had its journal, launched in the Pula Grammar School in
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