Vladimir Fran Mažuranić (March 28, 1859 – August 21, 1928) was a Croatian writer.
He was born in
Novi Vinodolski. After finishing the cavalry cadet school in
Hranice,
Moravia, and achieving the rank of a cavalry captain, he was discharged from the army in 1900 for his "restless life". Afterwards he traveled the world, never to come back to his country of birth.
His first pieces as a writer were
short stories published in ''
Vienac
''Vijenac'' (English: '' The Wreath'') is a biweekly magazine for literature, art and science, established in December 1993 and published by ''Matica hrvatska'', the central national cultural institution in Croatia.
Historical background
The ...
'' 1885, reminiscent of the work of
Ivan Turgenev. Forty or them were compiled in a collection ''Lišće '' ("Leaves", 1887). His stories were written with a penchant for concise, gnomic utterance and with a strong patriotic line, representing a role model of the genre in the
Croatian literature. He reappeared as writer only in 1927, when
Matica hrvatska
Matica hrvatska ( la, Matrix Croatica) is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyri ...
published a book of his stories ''Od zore do mraka'' ("From dawn to dusk"). Twelve of the short stories that the editors omitted were published separately in 1928 ''Od zore do mraka: dopunjak izdanju Matice hrvatske'').
He died in
Berlin.
References
External links
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Croatian writers
1859 births
1928 deaths
People from Novi Vinodolski
Writers from Austria-Hungary