Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

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Ivana brlić-mažuranić

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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

She was born on April 18 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić. Her father Vladimir Mažuranić was a writer, lawyer and historian. Her grandfather was the famous politician, the Ban of Croatia and poet Ivan Mažuranić. Ivana was home-schooled. With the family she moved first to Karlovac, then to Jastrebarsko, and ultimately to Zagreb.

Early life

• Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today in large part because of its adaptation into a computerized interactive fiction product by Helena Bulaja in 2003/2006. 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.

• Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century.

Work

• Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times – in 1931 and 1935 and in 1937 and 1938 .
• In 1937 she also became the first woman to be Corresponding Member into the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.

• It was in 1913 when her book The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice (also known as The Brave Adventures of Lapitch and Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića) was published that really caught the literary public's eye. In the story, the poor apprentice Hlapić accidentally finds his master's lost daughter as his luck turns for the better.

Work

Some of her works

5. Fables and Fairy-tales

4. A Book for Youth

3. Croatian Tales of Long Ago

2. The Brave Adventures of Lapitch

1. The Good and the Mischievous

Some of her works

5. Fables and Fairy-tales

4. A Book for Youth

3. Croatian Tales of Long Ago

2. The Brave Adventures of Lapitch

1. The Good and the Mischievous

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