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Slobodan Novak

Ante Slobodan Novak was a Croatian writer and novelist. He is best known for his novel "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" (1968), often listed as one of the best Croatian novels of the 20th century.

Novak was born in Split on 3 November 1924 to Duje and Marija (née Smoje) Novak. He was baptized in the local church as Ante Slobodan Novak. He finished elementary school in Rab, attended the Classical gymnasium in Split, then graduated in Sušak. During World War II he joined the Yugoslav Partisans.

He then attended the University of Zagreb and earned a degree in Croatian and Yugoslav literature in 1953. He worked as an instructor, proofreader, and playwright for the Croatian National Theatre in Split. Later he worked as a journalist and an editor in

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Dobrica Ćosić

Dobrosav Dobricа Ćosić (1921-2014), pisаc, esejistа, političаr, jednа od nаjznаčаjnijih figurа srpske istorije i književnosti druge polovine 20. vekа. U književnost ulаzi 1951. godine sа svojim prvim romаnom Dаleko je sunce, prvim modernim romаnom o jugoslovenskoj revoluciji koji je predstаvljаo kritiku revolucionаrnog terorа. Romаn je preveden nа tridesetаk jezikа, а sаmo u SSSR-u štаmpаn u 1.600.000 primerаkа. Zаtim objаvljuje romаne: Koreni (1954), Deobe (1961), Bаjkа (1965), Vreme smrti (tetrаlogijа, 1972–79), Vreme zlа – trilogijа Grešnik (1985), Otpаdnik (1986) i Vernik (1990), Vreme vlаsti I (1996) i Vreme vlasti II (2007). Dobitnik je Ninove nаgrаde dvа putа (zа romаne Koreni i Deobe), uz Oskаrа Dаvičа i Živojinа Pаvlovićа jedini je

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Borislav Pekić

Borislav Pekić was a Serbian/Montenegrin political activist and writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. A staunch anti-communist throughout his life, he was the founding member of the Democratic Party during the post-Tito era and is considered one of the greats of 20th century literature.

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Miodrag Bulatović

Miodrag Bulatović was a Serbian novelist and playwright. He began in 1956 with a book of short stories, Đavoli dolaze ("The Devils Are Coming", translated as Stop the Danube), for which he received the Serbian Writers Union Award. His best novel was, however, The Red Rooster Flies Heavenwards, set in his homeland of north-eastern Montenegro. This was translated into more than twenty foreign languages. Bulatović then stopped publishing for a time, to protest interference in his work. His next novel, Hero on a Donkey was first published abroad and only four years later (1967) in Yugoslavia. In 1975, he won the prestigious NIN Award for novel of the year for People with Four Fingers, an insight into the émigré's life. The Fifth Finger was a se

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Antonije Isaković

Antonije Isaković was a Serbian writer and member of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. He won the NIN Prize in 1982 for his novel Tren 2. He was one of authors of Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Isaković was one of the 50 members of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts who signed the petition against Slobodan Milošević in October 1999.

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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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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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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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Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Kiš (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Kiš (born Dragićević) from Cetinje, Montenegro. During the Second World War, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954.

Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960

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Semezdin Mehmedinović

Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.

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Meša Selimović

Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.

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Dobrica Ćosić

Dobrosav Dobricа Ćosić (1921-2014), pisаc, esejistа, političаr, jednа od nаjznаčаjnijih figurа srpske istorije i književnosti druge polovine 20. vekа. U književnost ulаzi 1951. godine sа svojim prvim romаnom Dаleko je sunce, prvim modernim romаnom o jugoslovenskoj revoluciji koji je predstаvljаo kritiku revolucionаrnog terorа. Romаn je preveden nа tridesetаk jezikа, а sаmo u SSSR-u štаmpаn u 1.600.000 primerаkа. Zаtim objаvljuje romаne: Koreni (1954), Deobe (1961), Bаjkа (1965), Vreme smrti (tetrаlogijа, 1972–79), Vreme zlа – trilogijа Grešnik (1985), Otpаdnik (1986) i Vernik (1990), Vreme vlаsti I (1996) i Vreme vlasti II (2007). Dobitnik je Ninove nаgrаde dvа putа (zа romаne Koreni i Deobe), uz Oskаrа Dаvičа i Živojinа Pаvlovićа jedini je

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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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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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Borisav Stanković

Борисав Станковић

Borisav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian writer belonging to the school of realism. His novels and short stories depict the life of people from Southern Serbia.

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Borislav Pekić

Borislav Pekić was a Serbian/Montenegrin political activist and writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. A staunch anti-communist throughout his life, he was the founding member of the Democratic Party during the post-Tito era and is considered one of the greats of 20th century literature.

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Slobodan Novak

Ante Slobodan Novak was a Croatian writer and novelist. He is best known for his novel "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh" (1968), often listed as one of the best Croatian novels of the 20th century.

Novak was born in Split on 3 November 1924 to Duje and Marija (née Smoje) Novak. He was baptized in the local church as Ante Slobodan Novak. He finished elementary school in Rab, attended the Classical gymnasium in Split, then graduated in Sušak. During World War II he joined the Yugoslav Partisans.

He then attended the University of Zagreb and earned a degree in Croatian and Yugoslav literature in 1953. He worked as an instructor, proofreader, and playwright for the Croatian National Theatre in Split. Later he worked as a journalist and an editor in

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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".

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

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Dragoslav Mihailović

Dragoslav Mihailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Михаиловић) was a Serbian writer. He graduated in Yugoslav literature from the University of Belgrade in 1957 and was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1981. In 1950 he was arrested and imprisoned during two years, most notably at Goli Otok.

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Ante Tomić

Ante Tomić is Croatian writer and journalist.

A native of Split, Ante Tomić begin to write as a reporter for local daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. His articles showed great literary talent that would manifest in his 2000 debut novel Što je muškarac bez brkova. Three years later he wrote novel Ništa nas ne smije iznenaditi, describing the life of recruits in Yugoslav People's Army. Both novels are adapted to screen.

Ante Tomić now writes for Jutarnji list. In 2004 he travelled across USA in order to cover presidential campaign by talking to "ordinary" people.

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Ivan Slamnig

Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.

Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taught at its Department of Comparative Literature.

Slamnig is considered one of the most important Croatian poets of the 20th century. His laconic, humor-infused modernist poetry is difficult to categorize, and proved popular with the critics and the public alike. His poem "Barbara", set to music by Zvonko Špišić, was a hit in 1975.

Slamnig was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1992.

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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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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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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Branimir Šćepanović

Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović started writing while still being a student in high school.

His famous novel Usta puna zemlje (Mouth full of earth) had 32 editions in Serbia and 23 editions in France. Šćepanović's 1977 novel, Smrt gospodina Goluže (The Death of Mr. Goluzha) was adapted in 1997 by Alan Wade for the film he directed, and was released by Fine Line Features and New Line International.

Branimir Šćepanović won the October award from the city of Belgrade and two Golden Arenas for Best Screenplays: Before the Truth (1968) and The Battle of Sutjeska (1973).

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Miodrag Majić

Miodrag Majić (Beograd, 1969) sudija je Apelacionog suda u Beogradu. Doktorirao je krivično pravo specijalizujući se za međunarodno-krivičnopravnu oblast. Samostalno i u koautorstvu, objavio je deset monografija i više od trideset članaka iz oblasti krivičnog i međunarodnog krivičnog prava, i učestvovao je u izradi najznačajnijih zakona u ovim oblastima. Predsednik je Upravnog odbora i jedan od osnivača Centra za pravosudna istraživanja (CEPRIS). Već desetak godina redovno objavljuje tekstove na svom blogu (www.misamajic.com), u kojima otvoreno govori o korupciji, nepotizmu i političkim pritiscima u pravosuđu. Roman Deca zlanjegov je prvi roman. Živi sa suprugom, dva sina i šnaucerom u Beogradu.

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Mirko Bogović

Mirko Bogović (Varaždin, 1816 - Zagreb, 1893) was a Croatian poet, playwright and politician.

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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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Ivan Slamnig

Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator.

Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taught at its Department of Comparative Literature.

Slamnig is considered one of the most important Croatian poets of the 20th century. His laconic, humor-infused modernist poetry is difficult to categorize, and proved popular with the critics and the public alike. His poem "Barbara", set to music by Zvonko Špišić, was a hit in 1975.

Slamnig was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1992.

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Đuro Sudeta

Đuro Sudeta was a Yugoslav (Croatian) writer.

After finishing the gymnasium in Zagreb, in 1922 he started working as a teacher at the civil school in Virje. Ever since the summer 1925, he fought tuberculosis, treating it in Topolšica, Zagreb and Koprivnica. In his brief lifetime he published two books of poetry: Osamljenim stazama ("By lonesome paths") and Kućice u Dolu ("Little houses in Dol"). He also wrote several novels and feuilletons.

Sudeta is a poet of dusky sentiments, rain, anxiety, disease and perishing, but he is want of the Sun, vivacity, spring and harmony, confronted with brutal reality of patient's deathbed. Sudeta is a lyric abounding with straightforwardness, creator of a divine religious inspiration, seeking for comfort of

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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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Sanja Pilić

Sanja Pilić (Split, 16. svibnja 1954.) hrvatska književnica.
Osnovnu školu i školu primijenjene umjetnosti završila je u Zagrebu. Kako sama autorica navodi za «odrasle, romantične i tužne» objavila je 2 zbirke priča: «Ah, ludnica» (Globus, 1986.) i «Tjeskoba šutnje» (Revija, 1990.). Iza nje je i nekoliko zbirki poezije: «Ženske pjesme» (Mozaik knjiga, 2000.,2001.), «Faktor uspjeha» (Mozaik knjiga, 2002. 2003.) i još ponešto: «Različitosti, od vrijeđanja do umorstva - priča Leti, Marta, leti» (Ljevak, 2003.); «Znala sam da moram izabrati drugačiji život» (Mozaik knjiga 2003., 2004.).Autorica je brojnih knjiga za djecu.
Dobitnica je nagrade Grigor Vitez za knjige "O mamama sve najbolje" (1990.) i "Sasvim sam popubertetio" (2002.) te nagrade Iva

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Mihailo Lalić

Mihailo Lalić (7. oktobar 1914 — 30. decembar 1992) je pisac koji se na samom početku književnog rada opredelio za jasan tematski krug (NOR), određeno geografsko podneblje (Crna Gora) i specifičan izbor aktera događaja i romanesknih priča. Započeo je knjigom pesama Stazama slobode (1948), ali se brzo okrenuo prozi, koja će postati isključiva forma umetničkog sagledavanja vremena, događaja i ljudskih sudbina. Prema njegovom scenariju snimljen je film „Svadba“ 1973. u režiji Radomira Šaranovića, takođe izvršena je ekranizacija njegovog romana „Lelejska gora“ 1968.

Prvi je dobitnik „Njegoševe nagrade“ 1963. za roman „Lelejska gora“. Dobio je NIN-ovu nagradu 1973. za roman „Ratna sreća“. Dobio je nagradu „21. jul“, najviše priznanje opštine Bera

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Janko Leskovar

Po završetku učiteljske škole, službovao je kao učitelj u mnogim mjestima, a u književnosti se javio kao tridesetogodišnjak svojom novelom "Misao na vječnost" koja je objavljena u "Vijencu" 1891. godine.
U svom desetogodišnjem književnom stvaralaštvu Leskovar je bio zaokupljen psihološkom analizom likova naglašeno nezainteresiranih ili nesposobnih za životnu borbu. Njegovi junaci postaju žrtvama vlastitih fikcija, kao ljudi kontemplacije koji život motre sa strane umjesto da u njemu djeluju.

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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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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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Ivo Kozarčanin

Ivo Kozarčanin, hrvatski pjesnik, prozaik, književni kritičar.

Ubrzo nakon rođenja seli u mađarsko mjesto Oreglak, gdje je njegov otac službovao kao željezničar. Nakon sloma Austro-Ugarske obitelj se vraća u Hrvatsku Dubicu u kojoj polazi pučku, a potom i trgovačku školu. Godine 1923. dolazi u Zagreb i nastavlja školovanje na građanskoj i učiteljskoj školi. 1932. upisuje Filozofski fakultet. Od 1938. urednik je kulturne rubrike “Hrvatskog dnevnika”. Poginuo je nesretnim slučajem tako što ga je, dok je kasno navečer prolazio pored Topničke vojarne u Ilici, ustrijelio stražar.

Objavljivati je počeo vrlo rano, od 1928. godine. Tiskao je pjesme, kritike i kratku prozu u brojnim časopisima. U ranom razdoblju njegovi su radovi uglavnom namijenjeni

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Vladan Desnica

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