Author · Croatia
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Died in 1938
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was born in Ogulin in 1874, granddaughter of Ivan Mažuranić, a poet and the first ban of Croatia who was not a nobleman. Raised among books, she had no access to the university, which was reserved for men, and educated herself; married young and settled in Brod na Savi, she had six children and wrote between household chores. In 1937 she became the first woman admitted to the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and her name was put forward for the Nobel Prize in 1931 and 1938. She took her own life in Zagreb on 21 September 1938, after years of depression.
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- TaleCroatian Tales of Long AgoPriče iz davnineIvana Brlić-Mažuranić · 1916Literature