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Revision as of 03:51, 7 January 2017
Vjenceslav Novak (Senj September 11, 1859 - Zagreb September 20, 1905) was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.
He was born into an emigrant Czech family, of which his mother was from an emigrant Bavarian family. He was the most successful Croatian realist writer and was known as the Croatian Balzac. He finished elementary and middle school in Senj and Gospić. He also worked as a teacher in Senj for some time.
He entered into literature in 1881 with the narrative Maca. He wrote seven novels. He published thirty narratives. Apart from stories he also wrote poetry, Feuilleton, dramatic works, reviews, critiques and musical arrangements.
He had a large family, suffered from tuberculosis, fought poverty, and during this period of his life was an ordinary writer of that time. He was a novelist, narrator, critic and translator and worked right up until his death in 1905. He started out as a Romantic story-teller and ended as a writer of modern psychological poetry with occult themes.
Works
- Novels:
- Pavao Šegota
- Pod Nehajem
- Posljednji Stipančići (Matica Hrvatska, 1899, Agram)
- Dva svijeta
- Tito Dorčić
- Nikola Baretić
External links
- 1859 births
- 1905 deaths
- People from Senj
- Croatian dramatists and playwrights
- Croatian novelists
- Male novelists
- Croatian male short story writers
- Croatian male writers
- Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
- 19th-century novelists
- 19th-century dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century short story writers
- 19th-century male writers
- Croatian writer stubs