August Šenoa
An image from Anno Domini 1573, one of the productions that also features August Šenoa.
August Šenoa

August Šenoa

November 14, 1838 — Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]

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.

Anno Domini 1573

Anno Domini 1573

1975

The House of the Plague

The House of the Plague

1979

Turopolje Cannon

Turopolje Cannon

1981

Matija Gubec

1919

Canary's Lover

1988