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August Šenoa (born November 14, 1838, Zagreb, Croatia, Austrian Empire; died December 13, 1881, Zagreb) was a Croatian novelist, critic, editor, poet, and dramatist.
He was a transitional figure, who helped bring Croatian literature from Romanticism to Realism and introduced the historical novel to Croatia. He wrote more than ten novels, among which the most notable are:
In his novels, he fused the national romanticism characterized by buoyant and inventive language with realist depiction of the growth of petite bourgeois class.
Although himself of German descent (his surname was originally spelled Schönoa), as "father of Croatian novel" and modern national literature he is at best in his mass Cecildemillean scenes and poetic description of oppressed Croatian peasantry and nobility struggling against foreign rule (Venetians, Austrians, Germans, Hungarians) and romanticised period from the 15th to the 18th century. It has become a commonplace phrase that "Šenoa created the Croatian reading public".
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