Publishing house Akademska Knjiga was founded in Novi Sad in 2006 with the aim of publishing capital scholarly works of domestic and foreign authors who write in the areas of social science and humanities, natural sciences as well as literature. Bora Babić, an editrix-in-chief and a directress of Akademska Knjiga, designed the profile and the concept of the publishing house together with the team of editors from different fields. Owing to the quality of published titles, Akademska Knjiga has become a recognizable publisher in the country and in the region in a short time. The creative vision of Akademska Knjiga is to publish capital works which broaden our knowledge and encourage critical thinking as well as to publish books which widen literary and artistic freedom. Those works are classified as cultural goods of Serbian people as well as of all other nations who understand the language in which books are published. Books of Akademska Knjiga cover 30 different genres of different fields and they are published in 18 editions. Beside domestic authors Akademska Knjiga has so far translated and published books from 30 languages. Thanks to quality editorial conception, publishing house Akademska Knjiga received many awards. The most important are:
The Captain Miša Anastasijević Charter (Akademska Knjiga, the leader of publishing industry in the region), Novi Sad, 2013;
The Letter of Appreciation to Akademska Knjiga for Outstanding Contribution to Development, Improvement and Affirmation of University in Novi Sad, 2015;
The Award for the Best Scientific Work Hermeneutics as Politics by Stanley Rosen, The 61st International Belgrade Book Fair, 2016;
The Award for Scientific Contribution in the Field of Publishing, The Festival “Pazi šta čitaš”, Belgrade, 2017;
The Award to Edition “Horizonti” for the Best Edition at the Book Fair “Trg od knjige”, Herceg Novi, 2017;
The Charter for the Best Publisher Awarded by Journalists, 62nd International Belgrade Book Fair, 2017;
The Award for the Publisher of the Year, 62nd International Belgrade Book Fair, 2017;
The Special Award for Publishing the Book Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns by Jürgen Habermas in two volumes, Novi Sad Book Fair, 2018;
The Award for the Best Publisher, Book and Graphics Fair, Kragujevac, 2018;
The Charter for the Best Publisher Awarded by Journalists, 67th International Belgrade Book Fair, 2024;
The Ambassador of France to Serbia, His Excellency Pierre Cochard, on May 16, 2023, at the Embassy of France in Belgrade, presented the Order of Arts and Letters (Officier de l’ordree des arts et des lettres) in the rank of officer (Officer) of the French Ministry of Culture to Bora Babić, a directress of Akademska Knjiga.
Akademska Knjiga is a member of China-CEEC Publishing Association (Certificate of Membership, a full member of China-CEEC Publishing Association, Beijing, 2019)
We are especially proud of the „Nikola Milošević“, „Isidora Sekulić“, „Laza Kostić“, „Miloš Đurić“ and numerous others that our authors have received.
Editorial team
Bora Babić, director and editor-in-chief
Ana Kukolj Jović, executive editor
PhD Žaneta Đukić Perišić, editor
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bojana Kovačević Petrović, editor
Prof. Dr. Časlav Koprivica, editor
Prof. Dr. Gorana Raičević, editor
Prof. Dr. Mirko Aćimović, editor
Vanja Radin, sales manager, distribution
Nikola Jovanović, proofreader
Vladimir Petrović, website and digital marketing editor
