Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938)

Death: 21st September 1938
Location: Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia
Cause of death:  Suicide
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Croatian writer of novels and fairy tales for children who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times - in 1931, 1935, 1937 and 1938. 
In the book Priče iz davnine / Croatian Tales of Long Ago (1916) Brlić-Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology.

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