Vjenceslav Novak

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Vjenceslav Novak

Vjenceslav Novak (Senj September 11, 1859 - Zagreb September 20, 1905) was a Croatian Realist writer and dramatist.

He was born into an emigrant Czech family, of which his mother was from an emigrant Bavarian family. He was the most successful Croatian realist writer and was known as the Croatian Balzac. He finished elementary and middle school in Senj and Gospić. He also worked as a teacher in Senj for some time.

He entered into literature in 1881 with the narrative Maca. He wrote seven novels. He published thirty narratives. Apart from stories he also wrote poetry, Feuilleton, dramatic works, reviews, critiques and musical arrangements.

He had a large family, suffered from tuberculosis, fought poverty, and during this period of his life was an ordinary writer of that time. He was a novelist, narrator, critic and translator and worked right up until his death in 1905. He started out as a Romantic story-teller and ended as a writer of modern psychological poetry with occult themes.

Works

Novels:
- Pavao Šegota
- Posljednji Stipančići
- Dva svijeta
- Tito Dorčić
- Pod Nehajem
- Nikola Baretić

External links

(Croatian) Biography

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 56670162 LCCN: n87115194 ISNI: 0000 0000 8384 6220 GND: 130628778 BNF: cb12275866k

Persondata
Name	Novak, Vjenceslav
Alternative names
Short description	Croatian writer
Date of birth	September 11, 1859
Place of birth
Date of death	September 20, 1905
Place of death

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