Vladimir Fran Mažuranić (March 28, 1859 – August 21, 1928) was a Croatian writer. He was born in

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. After finishing the cavalry cadet school in Hranice,

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, 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

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published in ''

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'' 1885, reminiscent of the work of

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. 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

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. He reappeared as writer only in 1927, when

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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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazuranic, Vladimir Fran Croatian writers 1859 births 1928 deaths People from Novi Vinodolski Writers from Austria-Hungary