CRO CULTURE MINISTER HANDS HIGHEST STATE AWARDS FOR CULTURE

ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic on Wednesday handed the highest state awards for culture "Vladimir Nazor" for 1995. The Life Achievement Award for Literature went to the late Croatian Dominican Rajmund Kupareo, who achieved a respectable career as a professor of aesthetics in Chile and wrote 25 books. The Life Achievement Award for Music went to composer and organist Andjelko Klobucar, the greatest master of organ music of the second part of the 20th century. The Life Achievement Award for Film went to academic painter Zeljko Senecic, who designed sets for more than 60 films, 20 television serials and about 30 stage plays. Other Life Achievement Awards went to sculptress Milena Lah for fine arts, film director, writer and theatre pedagogue Tomislav Durbesic for theatre and architect Zoja Dumendzic for architecture. The yearly award for literature went to Ante Stamac for his poetry collection "Crne rupe mracni soneti" (Black Holes Dark Sonnets), for music to Vladimir Kranjcevic, for film to academic cameraman Vjekoslav Vrdoljak, for fine arts to Ivan Lesnjak, for theatre to the Imago ensemble, for architecture to Velimir Neidhart, Marijan Hrzic, Zvonimir Krznaric and Davor Mance for their project of the National University Library in Zagreb. (hina) ha mm 191818 MET jun 96