Vladimir Fran Mažuranić
Vladimir Fran Mažuranić (March 28, 1859 – August 21, 1928) was a Croatian writer.[1]
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.[1]
His first pieces as a writer were short stories published in Vienac 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 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).[1]
He died in Berlin.
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- ^ a b c "Mažuranić, Vladimir Fran", Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 1999–2009, retrieved January 5, 2014
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