1. Stanko Vraz (1810)

Croatian Writer

Croatian-Slovene poet, translator, and publisher who was associated with the nineteenth-century Illyrian movement. His most famous work is a collection of folk songs written in the Slovene language.

2. Miroslav Krleža (1893)

Croatian Writer

A Croatian modernist author, poet, novelist, and dramatist, he is best known for works such as Banket u Blitvi (1939), Gospoda Glembajevi (1928), and Hrvatski bog Mars (1922). He was...

3. Ivan Aralica (1930)

Croatian Writer

Ivan Aralica is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina near Knin and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar Aralica had worked in...

4. Blaško Rajić (1878)

Croatian Writer

Blaško Stipan Rajić was a Bačka Croat Catholic priest writer and politician. He wrote poetry and prose works. His areas of service was region Bačka that at the time of...

5. Jasminka Domaš (1948)

Croatian Writer

Jasminka Domaš is Croatian Jewish writer journalist and scientist. Domaš was born on September 5 1948 in Banja Luka. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University...

6. Goran Tribuson (1948)

Croatian Writer

Goran Tribuson is a Croatian prose and screenplay writer. Tribuson received his B. A. in literature from the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb and his M. A. in filmology at the...

7. Ranko Marinković (1913)

Croatian Writer

Ranko Marinković was a Croatian novelist and dramatist. Born in Komiža on the island of Vis Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in...

8. Mirko Vidović (1940)

Croatian Writer

Mirko Vidović is a Croatian writer from Bosnia and Hercegovina.

9. Ksaver Šandor Gjalski (1854)

Croatian Writer

Ksaver Šandor Gjalski or Ljubomil Tito Babić was a Croatian writer and civil servant. His real name was Ljubomil Babić and he was born in the Gredice castle near Klanjec...

10. Mavro Vetranović (1482)

Croatian Writer

Mavro Vetranović was a prolific Croatian writer and Benedictine friar from Dubrovnik. Born in Dubrovnik in 1482 he entered the Benedictine Order in 1507 on the island of Mljet...

11. Nikša Ranjina (1494)

Croatian Writer

Nikša Andretić Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina was a writer and noblemen from the Republic of Ragusa most famous as the compiler of Ranjina's Miscellany. Ranjina is the most famous for...

12. Hugo Badalić (1851)

Croatian Writer

Hugo Badalić was a Croatian writer.

13. Katarina Zrinska (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Countess Ana Katarina Zrinska was a Croatian noblewoman born into the House of Frankopan noble family. She married Count Petar Zrinski of the House of Zrinski in 1641 and later...

14. Robert Perišić (1969)

Croatian Writer

Robert Perišić is a Croatian writer freelance journalist and screenwriter. His books are considered as authentic portrays of society in transformation and its heroes.

15. Nada Iveljić (1931)

Croatian Writer

Nada Iveljić was a Croatian children's writer. Her work includes eight books of poetry a short story collection a novel over forty books and a series of picture books for...

16. Đuro Sudeta (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Đuro Sudeta was a Croatian writer. After finishing the gymnasium in Zagreb in 1922 he started working as a teacher at the civil school in Virje. Ever since the summer...

17. Zvonimir Mrkonjić (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Zvonimir Mrkonjić is a prominent and award-winning Croatian playwright poet and academic.

18. István Blazsetin (1941) (1941)

Croatian Writer

István Blazsetin was a Croatian writer cultural worker and pedagogue from Hungary. According to some authors he is considered to be a Croatian writer from Vojvodina Serbia. He wrote...

19. Rajmundo Kunić (1719)

Croatian Writer

Rajmundo Kunić was a Greek and Latin humanist. Kunić was born in the Republic of Ragusa in the small town of Cavtat he lost his father early in life. In...

20. Petar Kanavelić (1637)

Croatian Writer

Petar Kanavelić was a Croatian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest Croatian writers of the 17th century. He signed himself as Pietro Canaveli or De Canavellis....

21. Tituš Brezovački (1757)

Croatian Writer

Tituš Brezovački was a Croatian writer. Brezovački as the great comedian of the period wrote all of his dramatic works in Kajkavian dialect. His poems were chiefly written in German...

22. Antun Šoljan (1932)

Croatian Writer

Antun Šoljan was a Croatian writer in a period of Cold War who appeared as a part of the literary magazine Krugovi. He wrote four novels: Izdajice Kratki izlet Luka...

23. Ivan Slamnig (1930)

Croatian Writer

Ivan Slamnig was a Croatian poet novelist literary theorist and translator. Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in...

24. Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874)

Croatian Writer

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.

25. Ivan Kozarac (1885)

Croatian Writer

Ivan Kozarac was a Croatian novelist poet and writer of short stories.

26. Ivo Kozarčanin (1911)

Croatian Writer

Ivo Kozarčanin was a Croatian writer poet and literary critic. Soon after his birth Kozarčanin's family moved to the Hungarian town of Oreglak where his faither worked on the railroad....

27. Petar Hektorović (1487)

Croatian Writer

Petar Hektorović was a Croatian writer. Hektorović also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo was born and died in Stari Grad Hvar. He was a poet and collector of...

28. Petar Zoranić (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Petar Zoranić was a Croatian Renaissance writer from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature the novel shows influence of...

29. Marin Držić (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Marin Držić is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer.

30. Janko Polić Kamov (1886)

Croatian Writer

Janko Polić Kamov was a Croatian writer and poet. He was born in Sušak Rijeka. Rebellious by nature he was expelled from Rijeka high school and dropped out of the...

31. Josip Kozarac (1858)

Croatian Writer

Josip Kozarac was a Croatian writer. Josip Kozarac was born in Vinkovci. He studied forestry management in Vienna and later served as forestry official in Vinkovci. He wrote stories plays...

32. Junije Palmotić (Unknow)

Croatian Writer

Junije Palmotić was a Croatian baroque writer poet and dramatist from the Republic of Ragusa. Alongside Vinko Pribojević and Juraj Križanić he was an early pioneer of the ideas...

33. August Šenoa (1838)

Croatian Writer

August Šenoa 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...

34. Igor Štiks (1977)

Croatian Writer

Igor Štiks is a writer and scholar presently living in Edinburgh UK. He has published two novels in 2000 and Elijahova stolica in 2006). A Castla in Romanie has been...