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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Đuro Sudeta
Đuro Sudeta was a Yugoslav (Croatian) writer.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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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 -
Anto Gardaš
Anto Gardaš was born in Agići near Derventa on 21st May, 1938. He graduated from the Law School in Zagreb. He has written about forty books, mostly for younger readers: novels, fairy-tales, stories, poems, role plays. He published five haiku collections. He received several awards for his novels and poetry in Croatia. His haiku was awarded and commended on many haiku contests both in Croatia and abroad. He died in Osijek, 10.06.2004.
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Sanja Polak
Sanja Polak rodila se 5. 11. 1968. godine u zagrebačkom rodilištu u Vinogradskoj ulici. Voli svoj Zagreb i gotovo sve njegove ulice. Pohađala je dječji vrtić u Prilazu Đure Deželića, dvije osnovne škole u Bolničkoj ulici i gimnazije u Križanićevoj i Habdelićevoj ulici. Diplomirala je u Savskoj ulici i postala učiteljica razredne nastave.
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Od 1991. godine učiteljica je u Osnovnoj školi Davorina Trstenjaka u Krčkoj i Savskoj ulici. Stanovala je u Ulici Braće Cvijića i Peruanskoj ulici s mamom Ljerkom, tatom Brankom i sestrom Ivanom. Danas stanuje u Ulici Vincenta iz Kastva sa suprugom Zoranom, kćerima Petrom i Paulinom i psićem Flokijem. Od 1996. godine uređuje časopis za učenike od 1. do 4. razreda Prvi izbor i kao urednica ima radnu sobu u ne -
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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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 -
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 -
Vjenceslav Novak
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj, 11. rujna 1859. - Zagreb, 20. rujna 1905.), hrvatski romanopisac, novelist, publicist, glazbeni kritičar i pedagog
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Rođen je u doseljeničkoj češkoj obitelji, gdje je majka Senjanka iz doseljene bavarske obitelji. Bio je najugledniji pisac hrvatskog realizma, te su ga zvali hrvatskim Balzacom. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Senju i Gospiću. Poslije završene preparandije u Zagrebu radi neko vrijeme kao učitelj u Senju.
U književnost ulazi 1881. godine pripovijetkom Maca. Napisao je sedam romana. Objavio je tridesetak pripovjedaka, a osim pripovjedne proze piše pjesme, feljtone, dramske pokušaje, recenzije, kritike i rasprave iz muzikologije i muzičke pedagogije.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
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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 -
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 -
Knister
Pseudonym für Ludger Jochmann. Jochmann wuchs im Ruhrgebiet auf. Er studierte Sozialpädagogik an der Universität Essen und Rhythmik an der Folkwangschule in Essen. Nach dem Erwerb seines Diploms arbeitete er als Sonderpädagoge. Seit 1978 ist er als freier Autor und Komponist tätig. Zunächst arbeitete er für Kindertheater im Ruhrgebiet, dann auch für Funk und Fernsehen. 1980 erfolgte die erste Buchveröffentlichung, gefolgt von Tonträgern, Fernsehserien, Computerspielen und Produktionen für das Kino. Sein erstes Buch für Erwachsene veröffentlichte er 2000 unter seinem bürgerlichen Namen.
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Sein Pseudonym wählte Knister aus seiner Rockmusikbegeisterung. Er nutzt Musik als Ausdrucksform bei seinen Vorstellungen für Kinder und stellte fest, dass da -
Brandon Sanderson
I’m Brandon Sanderson, and I write stories of the fantastic: fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers.
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Defiant, the fourth and final volume of the series that started with Skyward in 2018, comes out in November 2023, capping an already book-filled year that will see the releases of all four Secret Projects: Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Secret Project Four (with its official title reveal coming October 2023). These four books were all initially offered to backers of the #1 Kickstarter campaign of all time.
November 2022 saw the release of The Lost Metal, the seventh volume in the Mistborn saga, and the final volume of the Mistborn Era Two featuring Wax -
Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the Percy Jackson series.
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Anto Gardaš
Anto Gardaš was born in Agići near Derventa on 21st May, 1938. He graduated from the Law School in Zagreb. He has written about forty books, mostly for younger readers: novels, fairy-tales, stories, poems, role plays. He published five haiku collections. He received several awards for his novels and poetry in Croatia. His haiku was awarded and commended on many haiku contests both in Croatia and abroad. He died in Osijek, 10.06.2004.
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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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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Augusta Huiell Seaman
Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was an American author of children's literature. She graduated from Normal College in New York City in 1900 and went on to teach elementary school. Following her marriage in 1906, she devoted her time to writing children's books. While living in Island Beach, Augusta held various offices in the local government, including Borough clerk, Tax Collector, and Borough Registrar. Her works include: Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons (1910), The Boarded up House (1915), The Slipper Point Mystery (1919), The Dragon's Secret (1921), The Mystery at Number Six (1922), The Edge of Raven Pool (1924), The Charlemonte Crest (1930) and The Vanishing Octant Mystery (1949).
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Luko Paljetak
Graduated Croatian and English language, later earned PhD in 'Literal work of Ante Cettinea' thesis.
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Excellent English, French, Macedonian and Slovenian translator.
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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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Đuro Sudeta
Đuro Sudeta was a Yugoslav (Croatian) writer.
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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 -
Sanja Pilić
Sanja Pilić (Split, 16. svibnja 1954.) hrvatska književnica.
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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 -
Vjekoslav Majer
Vjekoslav Majer rodio se u Zagrebu 27. travnja 1900. godine. Bio je cijenjeni hrvatski pripovjedač i pjesnik. Školovao se u Zagrebu na Trgovačkoj akademiji, a kasnije je studirao glazbu.
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Pokrenuo je časopis "Ozon" 1923, godine te su dalje slijedili "Literatura" i "Antena".
Smatra se književnikom koji se pojavio nakon Prvog svjetskog rata. Prvu knjigu objavio je 1924. godine u Zagrebu pod naslovom "Lirika", a nakon toga objavio je "Pjesme zabrinutog Evropejca" 1934. godine.
Nadalje, njegova najpoznatija djela su: "Pepić u vremenu i prostoru", "Život puža, Svirač i svijet", "Dnevnik malog Perice", "Pjesme", "U utrobi Zagrebačke gore", "Svjetiljka na Griču", "Zagrebački feljtoni", "Dnevnik Očenašeka", "Breze kanarinci kiša", "Otvaram prozor".
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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.
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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 -
Tito Bilopavlović
Rođen je 7.siječnja 1940. godine u Novoj Gradiški. Diplomirao je na Pravnom fakultetu u Zagrebu 1977. godine. Radio je kao urednik u Studenskom listu, tajnik za kulturu u Novoj Gradiški, kao tajnik Društva hrvatskih književnika, kolumnist tjednika Danas, urednik dječjeg lista SMIB, urednik u Školskoj knjizi. Danas vodi Tribinu DHK-a.
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Započeo je kao pjesnik zbirkama Pijesku već oplakanom (1967.), Vrt za prijatelje (1969.), Exodus (1971.) i Lov na uzvanike (1974.); sklon ludičkim elementima, urbanoj kolokvijalnosti, humornim detaljima.[1] Kasnije se posvećuje prozi, s romanom Ciao, slinavci (1977.) i novelama Plavuša i atleta (1974.), Stid (1980.) i Škola za sjećanje (1982.) u kojima se bavi likovima iz urbane sredine. [2]
Dobitnik je “Brankove -
Anđelka Martić
Anđelka Martić (Zagreb, 1. svibnja 1924. – Zagreb, 11. studenoga 2020.) hrvatska je književnica i prevoditeljica, poznata po svojim djelima za djecu. Najčitanije joj je djelo kratki roman Pirgo, priča o prijateljstvu dječaka i laneta u danima Drugog svjetskog rata.
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Rođena je u Zagrebu 1. svibnja 1924. godine. Odrasla je na zagrebačkoj Trešnjevci, u obitelji s troje djece od kojih je ona bila srednje. Otac joj umire 1933. godine, a majka često zbog bolesti izbiva pa Anđelka provodi vrijeme kod očinskih bake i djeda na selu. To djetinjstvo između sela i grada kasnije će joj postati jedan od glavnih motiva i inspiracija te će ga opisati u mnogima od svojih knjiga.
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Ludwig Bauer
Croatian writer. Not to be confused with the German film critic, Ludwig Bauer.
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Ela Peroci
Ela Peroci was Slovenian children's author. Her stories are now considered classics in children's literature.
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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.
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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.