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| name               = Louis Adamič Memorial Room
| local name         = Spominska soba Louisa Adamiča
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| street             = Praproče pri Grosupljem
| town               = SI-1290 Grosuplje
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The [[Louis Adamič Memorial Room]] is housed in Praproče, the birthplace of [[Louis Adamič]] (1898&ndash;1951), a Slovene writer who spent most of his life in the USA after emigrating there in 1913 at the age of 14. Known in the United States as Adamic (''a-dam'ik''), his literature dealt with the social and political issues of both countries (for example, ''Dynamite'', ''The Native's Return'', ''The Eagle and the Roots'').

The collections of Adamič's legacy are dispersed throughout various archives in Slovenia and the USA. The most important is the one at Princeton University (books from his own library, manuscripts and correspondence, clippings). In Slovenia, the memorial room is placed in the tower of the country mansion in Praproče, where Adamič spent his childhood.
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The Louis Adamič Memorial Room was established in [[Established::1956]] by the [[Slovene Emigrant Association]]. A collection consists of the copies of his books (both English language and translated into Slovenian), several issues of the ''Bulletin of the United Committee of the South-Slavic Americans'' (published by Adamič in NYC in the 1940s) as well as some personal belongings. In the mid 2010s the displayed exhibits were transferred to the [[Grosuplje Library]] due to the building's poor condition. The library holds also some of the writer's correspondence and other documentation, mostly donated by his younger brother France.  

==See also==
* [[Grosuplje Library]]
* [[Municipality of Grosuplje]]
* [[Slovenian Migration Institute]]
* [[Slovene Emigrant Association]]

==External links==
* [http://www.grosuplje.si/portal_obcina/www/staticAdminMgr.php?action=read&menu=1127558650 Louis Adamič] on the [[Municipality of Grosuplje]] website (in Slovenian)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Adamic Louis Adamic on Wikipedia]
* [http://isi.zrc-sazu.si/index.php?q=en/node/427 Janja Žitnik Serafin, researcher on Adamič] from [[Slovenian Migration Institute]]
* [http://www.synapse.ne.jp/saitani/Guide%20of%20Noted%20Slovene-American%20Immigrant%20Author%20Louis%20Adamic.htm Louis Adamic in Japan by translator Shouzou Tahara]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6879688 Adamič's grave on the Find a Grave website]
Archives
* [http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C0246&kw= Louis Adamic Collection] in the Princeton University Library
* [https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/ssj/article/viewFile/3517/2930 Henry A. Christian: ''A Brief Survey of Archival Sources concerning Louis Adamic''] (1982, pdf)
* [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster025.1.pdf Louis Adamic in the ''Silvermaster'' FBI Files] (p. 437-438)
* [http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/aa/ihrc95.html Louis Adamič Papers at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota]
* [http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/assets/pdf/Spec1982Vol.4No.1.pdf Article about Louis Adamič from the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota]


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