August Šenoa

Personal Info

  • Known ForWriting
  • GenderMale
  • Birthday1838-11-14
  • Day of Death1881-12-13 (43 years)
  • Place of BirthZagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
  • Also Known As-

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...Read More