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  Petar Zoranić

  Petar Zoranić (1508 – after 1569) was a Croatian Renaissance writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine, regarded as the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. Zoranić wrote two other novels, Ljubveni lov and Vilenica, but neither of these has survived.

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  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
  Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, W

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  Sophocles

  Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής ; German: Sophokles , Russian: Софокл , French: Sophocle ) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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  Ivo Andrić

  Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
  Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r

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  Émile Zola

  Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
  Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse

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  Miroslav Krleža

  A leading Croatian writer and figure in the cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918-1941) and the Republic (from 1945, until his death in 1981). He has been often proclaimed as the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.

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  Pedro Calderón de la Barca

  Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
  
  Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp

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  Nikolai Gogol

  People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
  
  Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
  
  Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
  
  George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
  People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
  
  With this key figure of German literature, th

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  Marin Držić

  Marin Držić (also Marino Darza or Marino Darsa; 1508-1567) is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer. His works cover many fields: lyric poetry, pastorals, political letters and pamphlets, and comedies.

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  August Šenoa

  August Šenoa was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
  
  He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
  
  Zlatarovo zlato (Goldsmith's gold; 1871)
  Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj; 1876)
  Seljačka buna (Peasants' revolt; 1877)
  Diogenes (1878)
  Šenoa was also the author of the popular patriotic song "Živila Hrvatska".
  
  He was born in Zagreb, then part of the Habsburg Empire, into a family of Czech-German origin. His surname was originally spelled Schönoa. He studied law in Prague. He also lived in Vienna for a while, but returned to Zagreb in 1866. From 1874 to 1881, Šeno

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  Vjenceslav Novak

  Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
  
  Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
  
  U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
  U svom proznom stvaralaštvu (ponajprije kao pripovjedač

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  Ivan Mažuranić

  Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician—probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić was born into a well-to-do yeoman family in Novi Vinodolski in northern coastal Croatia. He became a man of many abilities: he spoke 9 languages and was well versed in astronomy and mathematics. His realistic assessment of strengths and weaknesses of Croatia's position between the hammer of Austrian bureaucracy and the anvil of Hungarian expansionist nationalism served his country invaluably in times of political turmoil. Mažuranić is best remembered for the "triple accomplishment"—contributions in economics, linguistics, and poetry.

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  Ranko Marinković

  Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.
  
  Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Zagreb. In the 1930s, he began to make his name in Zagreb literary circles with his plays and stories.
  
  His career was interrupted briefly during World War II. When his native island was occupied by fascist Italy, he was arrested in Split and interned on the Italian mainland. After the capitulation of Italy, Marinković went to Bari, and then to the El Shatt refugee camp where he made contacts with Tito's Partisans. After the war, he spent time working in the theatre.
  
  His bes

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  Ante Kovačić

  Tedious and a hard life through education. After he made to the doctor's degree, he managed to find an employment as a law clerk (Joseph Frank in Zagreb from 1875 to 1880). Eventually, he managed to run his own law firm in Glina, a poor neighborhood, where he often used to pay markers to a party, of his own money.
  He was a prominent supporter of the Party of Rights.
  A few days before moving to Djurdjevac, probably experienced the collapse of nerves - gets pneumonia, afterwards, and died not long after.

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  Petar Zoranić

  Petar Zoranić (1508 – after 1569) was a Croatian Renaissance writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine, regarded as the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. Zoranić wrote two other novels, Ljubveni lov and Vilenica, but neither of these has survived.

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  Ivan Gundulić

  Ivan Gundulić (Giovanni Gondola; nadimak Mačica; Dubrovnik, 8. siječnja 1589. - Dubrovnik, 8. prosinca 1638.) hrvatski je pjesnik, epik, lirik i dramatik.
  Rođen je kao najstariji sin Frana Gundulića i Džive Gradić. Obitelj Gundulić bila je poznata još u 13. stoljeću, a njezini su članovi, kao pripadnici aristokracije, obavljali različite državno-administrativne poslove u Dubrovniku i okolici.
  
  Obrazovao se u Dubrovniku, gdje su mu, uz ostale, učitelji bili Toskanac Camillo Camilli, koji je dopunio Tassov Oslobođeni Jeruzalem te svećenik Petar Palikuća, koji je na hrvatski preveo Život Karla Borromea. Nakon završetka školovanja, 1608. postaje član Velikoga vijeća. Nastavljajući obiteljsku tradiciju, obavlja više državno-administrativnih službi

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  Edgar Allan Poe

  The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
  
  Just as the bizarre c

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