Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
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| Born | Ivana Mažuranić 18 April 1874 Ogulin, Croatian Military Frontier, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 21 September 1938 (aged 64) Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, fairy tales writer |
| Language | Croatian |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Ethnicity | Croat |
| Citizenship | Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Period | 1902–1937 |
| Notable works |
The Brave Adventures of Lapitch, Croatian Tales of Long Ago |
| Spouse | Vatroslav Brlić (1892–1938) |
| Relatives |
Ivan Mažuranić (grandfather) Vladimir Mažuranić (father) |
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (pronounced [ǐv̞ana bř̩ːlit͡ɕ maʒǔranit͡ɕ]; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938) was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
She was born on 18 April 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić. Her father Vladimir Mažuranić was a writer, lawyer and historian who wrote Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik (Croatian dictionary for history and law) in 1882. Her grandfather was the famous politician, the Croatian ban and poet Ivan Mažuranić, while her grandmother Aleksandra Mažuranić was the sister of well-known writer and one of keypersons of Croatian national revival movement, Dimitrija Demeter. Ivana was largely home-schooled. With the family she moved first to Karlovac, then to Jastrebarsko, and ultimately to Zagreb.
Upon marriage to Vatroslav Brlić, a politician and a prominent lawyer in 1892, she moved to Brod na Savi (today Slavonski Brod) where she entered another known family and lived there for most of her life. She became the mother of six children, and devoted all her work to her family and education. Her first literary creations were initially written in French.
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century. Her stories and articles like the series of educational articles under the name "School and Holidays" started to be published more regularly in the journals after the year 1903.
It was in 1913 when her book The Marvelous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice (also known as The Brave Adventures of Lapitch and Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića) was published that really caught the literary public's eye. In the story, the poor apprentice Hlapić accidentally finds his master's lost daughter as his luck turns for the better.
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