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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Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance. He was also the first who defined and used the notion of psychology, which is today in current use.
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The central figure of the humanist circle in Split, Marulić was inspired by the Bible, Antique writers and Christian hagiographies. Main topics of his writings were Christian theological by nature. He was a poet and writer who wrote many poems, discussions on theology and Christian ethics, stories and some epics. He wrote in three languages: Latin, Croatian and Vulgar Italian (three letters and two sonnets are preserved).
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Petar Hektorović
Petar Hektorović je hvarski renesansni pjesnik i erudit, humanist značajan po svom po mnogočemu jedinstvenom djelu Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje.
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Rodio se u uglednoj vlasteoskoj obitelji. Obično se potpisuje Petre, latinski Petrus Hectoreus, a talijanski P. Hettoreo. Nije utvrđeno gdje se i kada školovao, ali kako već u mladosti stvara na latinskom i talijanskom jeziku, može se pretpostaviti da je polazio hvarsku javnu školu, te da je školovanje nastavio u Splitu ili Italiji. 1491., nakon turske provale, počinje utvrđivati i definirati svoj ljetnikovac Tvrdalj. O Hektorovićevom interesu za suvremenike, kao i o njihovim međusobnim vezama, svjedoče brojne njegove poslanice. -
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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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.
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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 -
Jean Racine
Classical Greek and Roman themes base noted tragedies, such as Britannicus (1669) and Phèdre (1677), of French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine.
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Adherents of movement of Cornelis Jansen included Jean Baptiste Racine.
This dramatist ranks alongside Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) and Pierre Corneille of the "big three" of 17th century and of the most important literary figures in the western tradition. Psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage mark dramaturgy of Racine. Although primarily a tragedian, Racine wrote one comedy.
Orphaned by the age of four years when his mother died in 1641 and his father died in 1643, he came into the care of his grandparents. At the death of -
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of just about all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.
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Molière
Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the -
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.
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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 -
Honoré de Balzac
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .
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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.
Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Mar -
Elke Heidenreich
Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.
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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.
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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 .
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Miro Gavran
Miro Gavran is a contemporary Croatian author, born in 1961. His works have been translated into 35 languages, and his books have come out in 150 different editions at home and abroad. His dramas and comedies have had more than 200 theatre first nights around the world and have been seen by more than two million theatre-goers.
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He is the only living dramatist in Europe to have a theatre festival devoted solely to his plays outside his/her homeland; the Gavranfest has been held in Slovakia since 2003.
He debuted in 1983 with the drama Creon's Antigone, speaking out forcefully about political manipulation. This was followed three years later by the drama Night of the Gods, the theme being the relationship between the artist and the powers-that-b -
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.
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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 -
Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Renaissance humanist, known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance. He was also the first who defined and used the notion of psychology, which is today in current use.
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The central figure of the humanist circle in Split, Marulić was inspired by the Bible, Antique writers and Christian hagiographies. Main topics of his writings were Christian theological by nature. He was a poet and writer who wrote many poems, discussions on theology and Christian ethics, stories and some epics. He wrote in three languages: Latin, Croatian and Vulgar Italian (three letters and two sonnets are preserved).
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Vladan Desnica
Vladan Desnica (Zadar, 17. rujna 1905. - Zagreb, 4. ožujka 1967.), srpski književnik. Prvim se radovima javio uoči Drugoga svjetskog rata objavivši svoj novelistički prvijenac Životna staza Jandrije Kutlače (1935) u Magazinu sjeverne Dalmacije. Ali tek kad je objavio roman pod oksimoronskim naslovom Zimsko ljetovanje (1950.), Desnica je, prateći skupinu Zadrana koji su se pred savezničkim bombama tijekom rata sklonili u sela zadarskog zaleđa, ušao u književnost kroz glavna vrata i odmah stao u red prvih srpskih pripovjedača kao umjetnik visoko njegovane rečenice realističko-naturalističkog stila, koja ima uzor u stilu talijanskoga verizma pa je, unatoč agitpropovsko-cekaovskoj kritici, odmah pozdravljen i prihvaćen od najmlađih pisaca.
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Josip Kozarac
Josip Kozarac (Vinkovci, 18. ožujka 1858. - Koprivnica, 21. kolovoza 1906.), hrvatski je prozaist - novelist, romanopisac, pjesnik, pisac pripovjetki i polemičar, diplomirani inženjer šumarstva, jedan od najpoznatijih hrvatskih šumara.
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Bio je jedan od važnijih hrvatskih prozaista, novelista, polemičara, pjesnika, ujedno i diplomirani inženjer šumarstva te najpoznatiji hrvatski šumar. Osnovnu školu završio je u Vinkovcima, te je pohađao gimnaziju koju je završio s puno muke, ali se sve promijenilo kada je upisao fakultet šumarstva u Beču. Diplomirao je 1879. godine na Visokoj školi za kulturu tla kao najbolji student na svojoj godini. Prije fakulteta živio je dosta slobodan i neobuzdan život. Puno je vremena provodio u prirodi, jednostavno pr -
Antun Gustav Matoš
Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
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He went to primary and secondary school in Zagreb. His attempt to study at the Military Veterinary College in Vienna ended in failure. He was conscripted in 1893, but he deserted in 1894, fleeing from Croatia to Šabac and then to Belgrade. He spent the next three years in Belgrade, living in his own words as a "cello player, journalist, and man of letters".
In January 1898 he traveled to Vienna and Munich, stayed for a while in Geneva, and then moved to Paris in 1899, where he would stay for five years. During his stay in Paris, he wrote his greatest stories.
In 1904 he returned to Belgrade, visiting Zagreb in secret (as he was still a deserter) in 19 -
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.
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His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe and any challenge to them was considered immoral and outrageous. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries.
Ibsen largely founded the modern stage by introducing a critical eye and free inquir -
Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
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Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for ch -
Petar Hektorović
Petar Hektorović je hvarski renesansni pjesnik i erudit, humanist značajan po svom po mnogočemu jedinstvenom djelu Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje.
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Rodio se u uglednoj vlasteoskoj obitelji. Obično se potpisuje Petre, latinski Petrus Hectoreus, a talijanski P. Hettoreo. Nije utvrđeno gdje se i kada školovao, ali kako već u mladosti stvara na latinskom i talijanskom jeziku, može se pretpostaviti da je polazio hvarsku javnu školu, te da je školovanje nastavio u Splitu ili Italiji. 1491., nakon turske provale, počinje utvrđivati i definirati svoj ljetnikovac Tvrdalj. O Hektorovićevom interesu za suvremenike, kao i o njihovim međusobnim vezama, svjedoče brojne njegove poslanice. -
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
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She started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century.
Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today.In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology.
Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. However, she never won the prize du -
María Dueñas
María Dueñas Vinuesa was born on 1964 in Puertollano, Spain. She has seven siblings. She is a professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, and is also an academic author and has worked at different universities in North America. She came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies. It has already been translated into more than 25 different languages.
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María Dueñas is marrried with Manuel Ballesteros, also a professor, and they have two children, the family lives in Cartagena. -
Mikša Pelegrinović
Mikša Pelegrinović (Hvar, 1500. - Zadar, 26. prosinca 1562.) bio je hrvatski plemić i pjesnik.
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Rođen je oko 1500. godine na Hvaru u vlastelinskoj obitelji podrijetlom iz Barlette, sin Marijana i Nikolice. U rodnom mjestu završio je humanističku školu, a u Padovi studirao je pravo.
Godine 1530. kao siromašni plemić prihvatio je dužnost hvarskog defenzora. Godine 1530. postaje korčulanski notar, a krajem 1538. vraća se na Hvar. Dana 5. veljače 1548. Izabran je za kancelara kriminala u Zadru. U Veneciju je putovao dvaput - godine 1556. i 1557., vjerojatno kako bi tiskao Jeđupku ili neka druga svoja djela. Tada je upoznao Liviju Martinušević, kojom se oženio 1558. godine i s kojom je imao kći Juliju i sina Julija.
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Hanibal Lucić
Hanibal Lucić (1485., Hvar – 1553., Hvar) rodio se u imućnoj plemićkoj obitelji, a obavljao je poslove i dužnosti hvarskoga suca, odvjetnika, branitelja plemićkih prava protiv zahtjeva pučana i izaslanika Velikog vijeća u Mlecima.
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Lucić je kritički uništio veći dio svoga stvaralaštva, a nevelik mu je opus objavljen tek nakon smrti.
Stvarao je vješto, u duhu petratkističko-trubadurskoga pjesništva - prema stranim (Ovidije, Petrarca, Bembo, Ariosto), ali i prema domaćim uzorima (Džore Držić) i osobito prema narodnom stihotvorstvu.
Zahvaćen renesansnim duhom, Lucić je oko 1530. počeo nedaleko od grada graditi svoj renesansni ljetnikovac. Umro je u Hvaru i pokopan u obiteljskom grobu u crkvi franjevačkog samostana. -
Ivan Gundulić
Ivan Gundulić (Giovanni Gondola; nadimak Mačica; Dubrovnik, 8. siječnja 1589. - Dubrovnik, 8. prosinca 1638.) hrvatski je pjesnik, epik, lirik i dramatik.
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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 -
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.
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Ivan Marković
Rodio se u Zagrebu (1974), na zagrebačkome Filozofskom fakultetu diplomirao (1997), magistrirao (2001) i doktorirao (2007) hrvatski jezik. Od 1999. do 2003. u Institutu za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, na ondašnjemu projektu Rječnika suvremenoga hrvatskog jezika. Od 2003. na Katedri za hrvatski standardni jezik.
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Hanibal Lucić
Hanibal Lucić (1485., Hvar – 1553., Hvar) rodio se u imućnoj plemićkoj obitelji, a obavljao je poslove i dužnosti hvarskoga suca, odvjetnika, branitelja plemićkih prava protiv zahtjeva pučana i izaslanika Velikog vijeća u Mlecima.
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Lucić je kritički uništio veći dio svoga stvaralaštva, a nevelik mu je opus objavljen tek nakon smrti.
Stvarao je vješto, u duhu petratkističko-trubadurskoga pjesništva - prema stranim (Ovidije, Petrarca, Bembo, Ariosto), ali i prema domaćim uzorima (Džore Držić) i osobito prema narodnom stihotvorstvu.
Zahvaćen renesansnim duhom, Lucić je oko 1530. počeo nedaleko od grada graditi svoj renesansni ljetnikovac. Umro je u Hvaru i pokopan u obiteljskom grobu u crkvi franjevačkog samostana. -
Ivan Marković
Rodio se u Zagrebu (1974), na zagrebačkome Filozofskom fakultetu diplomirao (1997), magistrirao (2001) i doktorirao (2007) hrvatski jezik. Od 1999. do 2003. u Institutu za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, na ondašnjemu projektu Rječnika suvremenoga hrvatskog jezika. Od 2003. na Katedri za hrvatski standardni jezik.
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Mikša Pelegrinović
Mikša Pelegrinović (Hvar, 1500. - Zadar, 26. prosinca 1562.) bio je hrvatski plemić i pjesnik.
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Rođen je oko 1500. godine na Hvaru u vlastelinskoj obitelji podrijetlom iz Barlette, sin Marijana i Nikolice. U rodnom mjestu završio je humanističku školu, a u Padovi studirao je pravo.
Godine 1530. kao siromašni plemić prihvatio je dužnost hvarskog defenzora. Godine 1530. postaje korčulanski notar, a krajem 1538. vraća se na Hvar. Dana 5. veljače 1548. Izabran je za kancelara kriminala u Zadru. U Veneciju je putovao dvaput - godine 1556. i 1557., vjerojatno kako bi tiskao Jeđupku ili neka druga svoja djela. Tada je upoznao Liviju Martinušević, kojom se oženio 1558. godine i s kojom je imao kći Juliju i sina Julija.
Živio je u Zadru sve do svoje smr