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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.
  
  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).
  
  In the works written in Croatian, Marulić achieved a permanent s

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  Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

  Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
  
  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

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  Vladimir Nazor

  Vladimir Nazor was one of the greatest and most famous Croatian poets. He was a writer, translator, and a humanist. Although he had not been an active politician until 1941, he had a significant political influence through ethical aspects of his work.
  

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  Mato Lovrak

  Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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  Mato Lovrak je bio hrvatski dječji pisac.
  
  Mato Lovrak rođen je u Velikom Grđevcu, selu kod Bjelovara, u šesteročlanoj obitelji krojačkog obrtnika Mate i majke Ane. Četverogodišnju pučku školu završio je u rodnom selu, a nakon četiri razreda niže realne gimnazije u Bjelovaru upisao se u Učiteljsku školu u Zagrebu koju je završio 1919. godine. Nakon završetka škole je službovao kao učitelj u Kutini, Klokočevcu, Velikom Grđevcu i Velikim Zdencima, a od 1934. godine do mirovine 1954. godine u Zagrebu.
  
  Pisao je i pripovijetke, ali je osobitu popularnost stekao romanima tematski vezanim uz djetinjstvo. Gradi zanimljivu fabulu s elementima pustolovnog, ali i s didaktičkim naglascima. Izuz

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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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  Pavao Pavličić

  Pavao Pavličić rođen je 16. kolovoza 1946. godine u Vukovaru gdje je završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirao je poredbenu književnost i talijanski jezik, a doktorirao je 1974. tezom iz područja metrike (Sesta rima u hrvatskoj književnosti).
  Od 1970. g. zaposlen je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu gdje je i danas redoviti profesor na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost. Književni i znanstveni interesi kod njega su podjednako zastupljeni i isprepliću se. Kao znanstvenika, Pavličića zaokupljaju teme iz starije hrvatske književnosti i literarne teorije. Iz tog područja objavio je veći broj rasprava i nekoliko knjiga: Rasprave o hrvatskoj baroknoj književnosti, 1979, Književna genologija, 1983, Stih u dr

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  Milivoj Matošec

  Milivoj Matošec (Zagreb, 1929.- Zagreb, 1982.) je novinar, urednik i pisac.
  
  Završio je studij prava, bio je dramaturg Radio-televizije Zagreb. Napisao je brojne priče, romane, radio-igre (60 ih je emitirano), scenarije za televizijske emisije, serije i crtane filmove. Njegova djela prevedena su na ruski, mađarski, slovenski i albanski. Bio je urednik listova i časopisa Vjesnik, Kerempuh, Omladinski borac, Horizont i dr.

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  Hrvoje Hitrec

  Hrvoje Hitrec is contemporary Croatian writer. Graduated comparative literature. He wrote theatre plays, movie and television scenarios, but he is especially known for his children books.

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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.
  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

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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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  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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  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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  Božidar Prosenjak

  BOŽIDAR PROSENJAK je rođen 19. kolovoza 1948. godine u Koprivnici. Djetinjstvo je proveo u podravskom selu Kuzmincu. Tamo je započeo svoje školovanje, nastavio ga zatim u Koprivnici, Parizu i Zagrebu, gdje je diplomirao romanistiku na Filozofskom fakultetu. Zaposlio se u Velikoj Gorici kao novinar i urednik kulture u listu i na radiju.
  
  Godine 1980. pokreće i više od šesnaest godina uređuje biblioteku "Albatros" u Velikoj Gorici. Uređije također Časopise Matice hrvatske u Velikoj Gorici i Društva hrvatskih književnika u Zagrebu. Od godine 1984. djeluje kao slobodni umjetnik. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika i Republičke zajednice samostalnih umjetnika Hrvatske, gdje je niz godina i član Upravnih tijela.
  
  Objavljuje prozne, pjesničke, drams

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  Ivan Kušan

  Ivan Kušan rođen je 1933. godine u Sarajevu. Školovao se te živio i radio u Zagrebu. Akademski je slikar. Radio je kao urednik na RTV Zagreb i u "Telegramu", bio je dramaturg u Zagreb-filmu, urednik u "Školskoj knjizi" te redoviti profesor Akademije dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Uređivao je časopis "Most" i knjižnice "Znanja" i "Školske knjige". Autor je mnoštva drama, filmskih scenarija, radio i televizijskih drama, romana, priča, eseja i kritika. Sastavio je nekoliko antologija. Priredio je dvije samostalne izložbe. Djela su mu prevođena na više stranih jezika.
  
  Objavio je knjigu drama Svrha od slobode, romane Uzbuna na zelenom vrhu, Razapet između, Koko i duhovi, Domaća zadaća, Zidom zazidani, Zagonetni dječak, Lažeš, Melita, Toranj, Koko

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  Hrvoje Hitrec

  Hrvoje Hitrec is contemporary Croatian writer. Graduated comparative literature. He wrote theatre plays, movie and television scenarios, but he is especially known for his children books.

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  Dinko Šimunović

  Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent most of his life as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of southern Croatia.
  He wrote many stories and novels, all dealing with people from his native region. He considered rural life superior to urban, but he showed compassion for people forced to emigrate due to poverty.
  He died in Zagreb.

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  Milivoj Matošec

  Milivoj Matošec (Zagreb, 1929.- Zagreb, 1982.) je novinar, urednik i pisac.
  
  Završio je studij prava, bio je dramaturg Radio-televizije Zagreb. Napisao je brojne priče, romane, radio-igre (60 ih je emitirano), scenarije za televizijske emisije, serije i crtane filmove. Njegova djela prevedena su na ruski, mađarski, slovenski i albanski. Bio je urednik listova i časopisa Vjesnik, Kerempuh, Omladinski borac, Horizont i dr.

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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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  Antun Gustav Matoš

  Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
  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

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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.
  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

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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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  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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  Mato Lovrak

  Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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  Mato Lovrak je bio hrvatski dječji pisac.
  
  Mato Lovrak rođen je u Velikom Grđevcu, selu kod Bjelovara, u šesteročlanoj obitelji krojačkog obrtnika Mate i majke Ane. Četverogodišnju pučku školu završio je u rodnom selu, a nakon četiri razreda niže realne gimnazije u Bjelovaru upisao se u Učiteljsku školu u Zagrebu koju je završio 1919. godine. Nakon završetka škole je službovao kao učitelj u Kutini, Klokočevcu, Velikom Grđevcu i Velikim Zdencima, a od 1934. godine do mirovine 1954. godine u Zagrebu.
  
  Pisao je i pripovijetke, ali je osobitu popularnost stekao romanima tematski vezanim uz djetinjstvo. Gradi zanimljivu fabulu s elementima pustolovnog, ali i s didaktičkim naglascima. Izuz

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  Pavao Pavličić

  Pavao Pavličić rođen je 16. kolovoza 1946. godine u Vukovaru gdje je završio osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirao je poredbenu književnost i talijanski jezik, a doktorirao je 1974. tezom iz područja metrike (Sesta rima u hrvatskoj književnosti).
  Od 1970. g. zaposlen je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu gdje je i danas redoviti profesor na Odsjeku za komparativnu književnost. Književni i znanstveni interesi kod njega su podjednako zastupljeni i isprepliću se. Kao znanstvenika, Pavličića zaokupljaju teme iz starije hrvatske književnosti i literarne teorije. Iz tog područja objavio je veći broj rasprava i nekoliko knjiga: Rasprave o hrvatskoj baroknoj književnosti, 1979, Književna genologija, 1983, Stih u dr

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  Branko Ćopić

  Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.
  
  Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional wri

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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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  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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  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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  Erich Kästner

  Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.
  A stout pacifist and democrat, he was expelled from the national writers' guild during the Nazi era, with many of his books being burned in public. Today, he is widely regarded as one of Germany's most prolific and beloved children's book authors.
  
  AKA:
  Έριχ Καίστνερ (Greek)

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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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  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
  Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a

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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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  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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  Jens Sigsgaard

  Jens Sigsgaard was Danish psychologist and writer.

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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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  Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

  Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
  
  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

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  Siniša Glavašević

  Novinar, publicist i prozaik.
  
  U rodnom Vukovaru je završio osnovnu i srednju školu, a u Sarajevu studij komparativne književnosti i bibliotekarstva. Bio je urednik Radija Vukovar i ratni izvjestitelj. Odveden je 19.XI.1991. iz vukovarske bolnice i od tada mu se izgubio trag. Ekshumiran je iz masovne grobnice Ovčara i identificiran. Sahranjen je 14. ožujka 1997. u Zagrebu, na Mirogoju.
  
  Matica hrvatska u Zagrebu posmrtno mu je 1992. izdala zbirku "Priče iz Vukovara".

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  Ivo Vojnović

  Vojnović was born in Dubrovnik as the first son of Count Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) and María de Serraglí (1836–1922) on the 9th of October 1857 in Dubrovnik, the Habsburg Monarchy. He was a member of the Serbian noble House of Vojnović. The city of his birth and its history had an important influence on his later literary work. Most of his childhood however he spent in Split. He had a famous younger brother Lujo Vojnović, who would later play an important political and cultural role in the late 19th- and 20th-century Dalmatia and Montenegro. As a young man he moved to Zagreb with his family, where he graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1879. Until 1884 he served as a trainee of the Royal Court Table in Zagreb. Af

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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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  Nada Mihelčić

  Hrvatska književnica za djecu i mlade. U Zagrebu je završila gimnaziju, apsolvirala na FPN, paralelno upisala studij filozofije i indologije na FF i pohađala predavanja na pravnom fakultetu, trudeći se dobiti što šire obrazovanje, a onda je sve napustila i odlučila putovati. Dugo godina se bavila astronomijom, alpinizmom, te prodavala američke građevinsku i brodograđevnu opremu diljem Europe. Počinje pisati tek u zreloj dobi.

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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.
  
  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.

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  Luko Paljetak

  Graduated Croatian and English language, later earned PhD in 'Literal work of Ante Cettinea' thesis.
  
  Excellent English, French, Macedonian and Slovenian translator.
  
  He is an academic. Lives in Dubrovnik.

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  Božidar Prosenjak

  BOŽIDAR PROSENJAK je rođen 19. kolovoza 1948. godine u Koprivnici. Djetinjstvo je proveo u podravskom selu Kuzmincu. Tamo je započeo svoje školovanje, nastavio ga zatim u Koprivnici, Parizu i Zagrebu, gdje je diplomirao romanistiku na Filozofskom fakultetu. Zaposlio se u Velikoj Gorici kao novinar i urednik kulture u listu i na radiju.
  
  Godine 1980. pokreće i više od šesnaest godina uređuje biblioteku "Albatros" u Velikoj Gorici. Uređije također Časopise Matice hrvatske u Velikoj Gorici i Društva hrvatskih književnika u Zagrebu. Od godine 1984. djeluje kao slobodni umjetnik. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika i Republičke zajednice samostalnih umjetnika Hrvatske, gdje je niz godina i član Upravnih tijela.
  
  Objavljuje prozne, pjesničke, drams

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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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  Antun Gustav Matoš

  Matoš was born in Tovarnik in the region of Syrmia, today's Croatian Vukovar-Syrmia County.
  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

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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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  Dinko Šimunović

  Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent most of his life as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of southern Croatia.
  He wrote many stories and novels, all dealing with people from his native region. He considered rural life superior to urban, but he showed compassion for people forced to emigrate due to poverty.
  He died in Zagreb.

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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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  Branka Primorac

  Branka Primorac rođena je 1964. godine u Zagrebu gdje je ostala i cijeli svoj život . Sve škole (od osnovne do Fakulteta političkih znanosti) pohađala je i završila u Zagrebu. U zagrebačkoj redakciji Večernjeg lista radi kao novinarka i urednica kulture. Pisanjem se bavi cijeli život, a u književnost ulazi s dvije knjige u jednoj godini: Maturalcem (Knjiga je uvrštena u popis lektire za 7. razred osnovne škole), koji dobiva Nagradu "Mato Lovrak" za najbolji roman za mladež objavljen u 1993. godini, i Mama, pazi pas! Slijedi Sve zbog Ane (1996.), svojevrsni nastavak Maturalca pa Ljubavni slučaj mačka Joje (1998.).
  
  Napisala je i biografski roman (dokumentarnu prozu), knjigu Perešin, život i smrt (2001.) za koju je dobila Nagradu "Bili su prvi

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  Maja Brajko-Livaković

  Maja Brajko-Livaković rođena je u travnju 1959. godine.Djetinjstvo je, kako sama voli reći, prohodala, proplivala i izmaštala u prekrasnom Bolu na otoku Braču, gdje je završila osnovnu školu i gimnaziju. U Zagrebu je diplomirala na Filozofskom fakultetu. Tek 1995. počinje objavljivati. Fascinirana je čudom prirode, svemirom i svrhom čovjeka na putu ka vječnosti. Stoga u svojim romanima i pričama piše o prirodi i njezinom očuvanju i o problemima odrastanja mladeži u mreži suvremenih zavodljivosti svijeta. Ona otvara mnoge tabu teme. Prva je u našoj književnosti za djecu i mlade progovorila o problemu droge (Kad pobijedi ljubav) i o „bijelom roblju“ (Nemoj reći nikome).
  
  Djela: Finka Fi, Kad pobijedi ljubav i Nemoj reći nikome uvrštena su na po

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  Slavko Kolar

  Slavko Kolar (pravo ime: Aloysius Vjekoslav Kolar) je bio hrvatski književnik i scenarist. Za života je napisao i objavio više od stotinu djela, a najpoznatija su “Breza” i “Svoga tela gospodar”. Inspiraciju je pronalazio u društvenim zbivanjima oko njega, a njegovo stvaranje je bilo prožeto humorom i satirom. Preminuo je u Zagrebu 15.9.1963. godine.

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  Ivan Kozarac

  Ivan Kozarac was a Croatian novelist, poet and writer of short stories.
  He was an active writer for only four years. In his lifetime only a single book was published; a compilation of short stories, "Slavonian Blood" in 1906, and his other books were released only after his death (thanks in part to the efforts of Dragutin Tadijanović).
  
  His cardinal work is the novel "Đuka Begović", first published in 1911. The novel describes many Slavonian traditions in an almost documentary style. It has since been made into a theatrical play and a movie by Branko Schmidt.
  
  Kozarac failed to attract a particular attention to himself in his lifetime. He was a narrator of the life of typical villages of Šokadija during a time when the Military Frontier was fres

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  Janko Polić Kamov

  Rebellious by nature, he was expelled from Rijeka high school and dropped out of the school in Zagreb. Because of his participation in the demonstration against the Hungarian governor in Croatia, Khuen-Héderváry, he was sentenced to three months in prison in 1903. Headstrong and temperamental, he called himself Kamov, after Ham (or Kam) from the Old Testament, who saw his father Noah naked but unlike his siblings Shem and Japhet did not cover his nakedness, thus issuing a curse. Kamov probably saw himself as a revealer of bourgeoise hypocrisy and wrote to his brother Vladimir in 1910 - "Kamov to me is a literary program..."
  His literary work was small, but very significant, because in his poems and plays he expressed his anger and displeasur

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  Dragutin Tadijanović

  Dragutin Tadijanović (Rastušje, kod Sl. Broda, 4. studenog 1905. - Zagreb, 27. lipnja 2007.), hrvatski pjesnik.
  
  Dragutin Tadijanović rođen je 4. studenoga 1905. godine u Rastušju, kod Slavonskog Broda, kao najstariji sin zemljoradnika Mirka Tadijanovića i Mande. Polazio je Nižu pučku školu u susjednom selu Podvinju (1912. - 1916.) i u Slavonskom Brodu dva razreda Više pučke škole (1916. - 1925.), a od 1918. Realnu gimnaziju. Od jeseni 1920. godine, stanujući u brodskom samostanu, kao učenik petog razreda gimnazije, piše pjesme.U Zagrebu je na Gospodarsko-šumarskom fakultetu upisao studij šumarstva (1925.), ali je kasnije prešao na Filozofski fakultet (povijest južnoslavenske književnosti i filozofija 1928.). Diploma Filozofskog fakulteta Sve

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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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  Mikša Pelegrinović

  Mikša Pelegrinović (Hvar, 1500. - Zadar, 26. prosinca 1562.) bio je hrvatski plemić i pjesnik.
  
  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

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  Tin Ujević

  Augustin 'Tin' Ujević is considered to be one of the greatest Croatian poets of all times.
  
  Ujević was born in Vrgorac, a small town in the Dalmatian hinterland, and grew up in what were then provincial towns of Imotski and Makarska. He completed classical gymnasium in Split and moved to Zagreb to study Croatian language and literature, classical philology, philosophy and aesthetics. This turbulent part of his life was marked by the bohemian milieu. His mentor was the central figure of Croatian early modernism, Antun Gustav Matoš, whom he later denounced. Briefly embroiled in the activities of Yugoslav nationalism (1912–1916), Ujević left politics for good, spending the rest of his life as a quintessential bohemian wanderer, residing and blas

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  Milutin Cihlar Nehajev

  Croatian writer and journalist. He wrote novels, studies and essays.
  
  In Vienna, he studied chemistry and in 1903 got a doctorate in philosophy.
  
  He is known to be one of the most notable Croatian modernist writers; his novel "Bijeg" is often pointed out as the best novel of Croatian modernist period.

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  Josip Cvenić

  Josip Cvenić rođen je 1952. godine u Osijeku. Osnovnu i srednju školu završio je u rodnom gradu, Filozofski fakultet, studij filozofije i sociologije, završio je 1976. u Sarajevu. Nekoliko godina radi kao profesor u gimnaziji, a 1980. zapošljava se kao urednik u Izdavačkom centru Radničkog sveučilišta u Osijeku. 1990. godine izabran je za glavnog urednika časopisa za književnost i kulturu Revija (Književna revija). Danas radi kao tajnik i urednik u Matici hrvatskoj Osijek. Član je Društva hrvatskih književnika.

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  Petar Šegedin

  NAPOMENA: za istoimenog filozofa vidi Petar Šegedin

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  Ksaver Šandor Gjalski

  Ksaver Šandor Gjalski, or Ljubomil Tito Babić (26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935) was a Croatian writer and civil servant.
  
  His real name was Ljubomil Babić and he was born in the Gredice castle near Klanjec and Zabok in Hrvatsko Zagorje, into a minor aristocratic family. He finished high school in Varaždin and earned law degrees in Zagreb and Vienna. He was also involved in politics. In 1906 he got elected into the Croatian Parliament. 1917 through 1918 he held the post of mayor of the Zagreb county.
  
  He wrote novels, but his best known work is Pod starim krovovima (Under Old Roofs), a collection of short stories in which he described the economic decline of the Croatian aristocracy. Gjalski managed to combine realism and poetry in his work be

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  Dubravko Jelačić Bužimski

  Dubravko Jelačić Bužimski hrvatski je pisac i književnik. Diplomirao je na Pravnom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Do sada je objavio dvije zbirke pripovijedaka. Tada ga je počelo zaokupljati kazalište pa se okreće pisanju drama. Sve su njegove drame igrane u brojnim hrvatskim kazalištima i inozemstvu, a neke su tiskane i u knjizi pod naslovom "Sjene".
  
  Uz kazališne, pisao je i radio-drame, filmske scenarije, televizijske drame i dvije televizijske serije: "Troje u dvorcu" i "Razgovor sa sjenama". Danas živi i radi u Zagrebu.

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  Damir Miloš

  Damir Miloš rođen je 1954. godine u Opatiji. Objavljivao je drame, prozne, esejističke i teorijske tekstove, knjige i priručnike o jedrenju. Prozne knjige: Bijeli klaun, Zoe, Kapetanov dnevnik, Nabukodonozor, jedriličarski brevijar Pod jedriljem krstača.

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  Jasminka Tihi-Stepanić

  Jasminka Tihi-Stepanić rođena je 1958. godine u Velikoj Gorici. Profesorica je hrvatskog jezika u OŠ Eugena Kvaternika u rodnome gradu.
  
  Piše za djecu i mlade. Priče objavljuje u časopisima Modra Lasta, Smib, Radost i Književnost i dijete, kao i na Hrvatskom radiju u emisiji Priča za velike i male te u TV seriji HRT-a Psst... Priča!
  
  Njen roman prvijenac Imaš Fejs? dobio je nagradu "Mato Lovrak" za najbolji roman za djecu i mlade objavljen u 2011. godini, a istoimena radioigra nagrađena je posebnom nagradom na 9. međunarodnom festivalu radioigara za djecu i mlade Prix Ex Aequo u Bratislavi koju dodjeljuje Međunarodna unija za dječju knjigu IBBY.
  
  Objavila je roman Bacit ću ti kompjutor kroz prozor 2013. godine i zbirku priča Baš kao Harry Potter

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  Želimir Hercigonja

  Želimir Hercigonja rodio se u Zagrebu 29. ožujka 1956. godine. U svom književnom radu najviše se ističe pisanjem za djecu.
  
  Objavio je tri zbirke priča i bajki za djecu - "Bajkovnica", 1997. godine, "Srebrnasta nit snova", 1999. godine i 2000 godine "Vladar ledene osame".
  
  Od romana ističe se roman "Tajni Leksikon" koji je bio objavljen 2001. godine. Najpoznatije slikovnice za djecu su mu: "Maslačkova kruna" objavljena 2001. godine te "Tuga, radost i divlja svinja" koju je objavio 2001. godine.
  
  Osim što piše prozu, istaknuo se i pisanjem dječje poezije. Njegovi uzori u književnom svijetu su Hans Christian Andersen i Charles Perrault.

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  Eugen Kumičić

  Eugen Kumičić (Brseč, 11. siječnja 1850. - Zagreb, 13. svibnja 1904.), hrvatski književnik i političar
  
  Pseudonim - Jenio Sisolski
  
  Eugen Kumičić rođen je 11. siječnja 1850. godine u malom istarskom mjestu Brseč. Osnovnu pučku školu, normalku, završio je u Brseču, privatno, učeći kod tamošnjeg župnika koji je okupljao hrvatsku djecu i pripremao ih u početnim znanjima.[1] Gimnaziju je završio u Rijeci. Počeo je studirati medicinu u Pragu, ali prelazi u Beč gdje studira povijest, zemljopis i filozofiju. Potom se u Zagrebu zaposlio kao srednjoškolski profesor. Oduševljavao se pravaštvom, te s Matkom Laginjom i Erazmom Barčićem pokreće u Kraljevici list Primorac te uređuje Hrvatsku vilu (1882-1883) i Hrvatsku (1887-1888). Od 1884. godine je kao pra

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  Dobriša Cesarić

  Dobriša Cesarić (Požega, 10. siječnja 1902. - Zagreb, 18. prosinca 1980.) hrvatski pjesnik i prevoditelj.
  
  Dobriša Cesarić je rođen u Požegi 10. siječnja 1902. godine. Djetinjstvo provodi u Osijeku gdje završava osnovnu školu i četiri niža razreda gimnazije. U jeku Prvog svjetskog rata dolazi 1912. godine u Zagreb gdje završava gimnaziju, a poslije mature 1920. godine upisuje pravo, a nakon godinu dana filozofiju.
  
  Kratko vrijeme radi u zagrebačkom kazalištu, a zatim dugo godina kao knjižničar u Higijenskom zavodu, da bi poslije Drugog svjetskog rata radio kao urednik u izdavačkom poduzeću Zora. Umro je u Zagrebu 18. prosinca 1980. godine. Bio je član Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti.
  
  U književnosti se prvi put, kao četrnaestogodišn

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