
August Šenoa
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1838-11-14
Day of Death
1881-12-13 (43 years old)
Place of Birth
Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
August Šenoa
Biography
August Ivan Nepomuk Eduard Šenoa (1838–1881) was a Croatian novelist. Born to an ethnic German and Slovak family, Šenoa became a key figure in the development of an independent literary tradition in Croatian and shaping the emergence of the urban Croatian identity of Zagreb and its surroundings at a time when Austrian control was weaning. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are: Zlatarovo zlato (The Goldsmith's Treasure; 1871), Čuvaj se senjske ruke (Pirates of Senj; 1876), Seljačka buna (Peasants' revolt; 1877), and Diogenes (1878). In his novels, he fused national romanticism characterized by buoyant and inventive language with realistic depictions of the growth of the petite bourgeois class.
In 2008, a total of 182 streets in Croatia were named after August Šenoa, making him the person with the seventh most streets in the country named after him.
Crew
(1988)
Canary's Lover
Novel
(1981)
Turopolje Cannon
Novel
(1979)
The House of the Plague
Writer
(1975)
Anno Domini 1573
Novel
(1919)
Matija Gubec
Novel