Louis Adamič Memorial Room

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Spominska soba Louisa Adamiča

Taborska 2, SI-1290 Grosuplje

http://www.grosuplje.si/

obcina-grosuplje@ob.grosuplje.si

Phone386 (0) 1 788 8774

Founded byMunicipality of Grosuplje

Managed byGrosuplje Library

Uroš Perme, Co-ordinator (Municipality of Grosuplje)

uros.perme@ob.grosuplje.si

Phone386 (0) 31 352 045

The Louis Adamič Memorial Room is housed in the birthplace of Louis Adamič (1898–1951), a writer who spent most of his life in the USA. His literature dealt with the social and political issues of both countries (e.g. Dynamite, The Return to the Birth Place, The Eagle and the Roots).

The collections of Adamič' legacy are dispersed throughout the various archives. The most important is the one at the Princeton University (books from his own library, manuscripts and correspondence, clippings). The memorial room in the tower of the country mansion in Praproče where Adamič spent his childhood holds copies of his books (American and translated), 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.

See also

• Grosuplje Library
• Grosuplje Municipality

External links

• Louis Adamič on the Municipality of Grosuplje website (in Slovenian)
• Louis Adamic Collection in the Princeton University Library
• Louis Adamic in the Silvermaster FBI Files (p. 437-438)
• Louis Adamič Papers at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
• Louis Adamic on Wikipedia
• Louis Adamic in Japan

Gallery

View of the building where Louis Adamič's Memorial Room is placed.

Cabinet in the Louis Adamič Memorial Room in Praproče, the collection consists of copies of his books, and other important publications including a political bulletin published by Adamič in NYC in the 1940s, as well as some personal belongings

Plaque at the Louis Adamič Memorial Room commemorating Adamič [1899-1951]a noted Slovenian author journalist and political activist, who became an American citizen in 1918. The most important collection of his work is held by Princeton University

The Louis Adamič Memorial Room was established in 1956 by the Slovene Emigrant Association to commemorate his important literature contribution dealing with the social and political concerns of both his birthplace and his adopted country America

Louis Adamič Memorial Room is located in the tower of this building where Adamič lived as a child. He emigrated to America at age 15 shortly after being expelled from school for taking part in student demonstrations against the ruling Austrians