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PoetryJuditaMarko Marulić · 1501not translated into EnglishA biblical widow whom the author made the figure of a Dalmatian town threatened by the Turks, and the first art poem of this literature.Literature
TheatreHekubaMarin Držić · 1559not translated into EnglishThe only tragedy by the great comic playwright of Ragusa, taken from Euripides by way of the Italian, and which the Senate of the city at first refused to let be performed.Literature
PoetrySuze sina razmetnogaIvan Gundulić · 1622not translated into EnglishThe first penitential poem of the literature of Ragusa, in three laments, on a parable that everyone knew.Literature
PoetrySatir iliti divji čovikMatija Antun Reljković · 1762not translated into EnglishThe great book of the Enlightenment in Slavonia: a didactic poem that shames villagers for their ways and teaches them farming, schooling and cleanliness, in the very speech of the province it wants to reform.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryĐulabijeStanko Vraz · 1840not translated into EnglishThe first love songwriter of Croatian poetry, at a time when it sang little but the national awakening, and the book that naturalises in the language a short quatrain from the songs of Poland.Literature
PoetrySmrt Smail-age ČengićaIvan Mažuranić · 1846not translated into EnglishEleven hundred lines built on an event of the Ottoman frontier five years old, in which a man who knew only force ends up meeting something other than it.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryNove pjesmePetar Preradović · 1851not translated into EnglishThe second collection of a general of the Empire who had almost lost his mother tongue and relearned it in order to write, and in which the tone darkens: fatality takes the place of the calls for the nation's awakening.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelZlatarovo zlatoAugust Šenoa · 1871not translated into EnglishThe book that opened the historical novel in Croatia, published in instalments in the journal that then made up the country's literature, and built on sixteenth-century archives in which almost all the characters actually lived.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelOlga i LinaEugen Kumičić · 1881not translated into EnglishThe first Croatian naturalist novel, in which the opposition between two young women serves to show what a country loses when its well-off classes stop speaking its language.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryBugarkinjeSilvije Strahimir Kranjčević · 1885not translated into EnglishThe first book of a young man from Senj, between the patriotic fervour of his time and the first questions about man and God.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesPod starim krovovimaKsaver Šandor Gjalski · 1886not translated into EnglishTwelve stories from the manor houses of a region where the old world lasted longer than elsewhere, written by someone who belonged to the class whose end he watches.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeSlavonska šumaJosip Kozarac · 1888not translated into EnglishThe text in which a man whose trade is the forest makes it an object of literature, and draws from its capacity to renew itself a lesson that holds for human beings.Literature
NovelU registraturiAnte Kovačić · 1888not translated into EnglishA novel written in a fever by a peasants' son, published as a serial a year before its author died in the asylum, and bound as a volume only twenty-three years later.Literature
NovelPosljednji StipančićiVjenceslav Novak · 1899not translated into EnglishThe last of a patrician house die out at the same time as the world they lived on, and the narrative grants them not an ounce of tenderness.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesIverjeAntun Gustav Matoš · 1899not translated into EnglishThe first book of a deserter who wrote from Paris and could not go home, and through which the prose of his country entered its century.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreA Trilogy of DubrovnikDubrovačka trilogijaIvo Vojnović · 1902Three plays that can be staged together or separately, and in which the real character is none of the nobles who speak, but the city itself.Literature
PoetryPjesmeVladimir Vidrić · 1907not translated into EnglishThe only book of a man who wrote only about forty poems, and whom the poetry of his country nevertheless counts among its summits.LiteraturePublic domain
TaleVeli JožeVladimir Nazor · 1908An Istrian tale in which the giant who carries every burden and gets nothing stands for an entire people.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesMrkodolDinko Šimunović · 1909not translated into EnglishFive stories that brought into Croatian letters a country they had not looked at, the stony hinterland between the Krka and the Cetina.LiteraturePublic domain
TaleCroatian Tales of Long AgoPriče iz davnineIvana Brlić-Mažuranić · 1916Eight tales today, six originally, invented from scratch on the names and beings of a mythology that Christianity had covered over.Literature
PoetryKipci i popevkeDragutin Domjanić · 1917not translated into EnglishThe first book in Kajkavian by a judge of the country's highest court, who returns to the speech of his childhood after beginning in the common language.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLelek sebraTin Ujević · 1920not translated into EnglishThe first book of a poet who never had a home, written on his return from six years of misery in Paris and published far from home.Literature
PoetryZ mojih bregovFran Galović · 1925not translated into EnglishAn unfinished cycle, written in his father's vineyard over two summers and published eleven years after the death of its author, who had published no poem in this language during his lifetime.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelCareva kraljevinaAugust Cesarec · 1925not translated into EnglishA novel that takes place within a single day and a single building, written ten years later by someone who had been imprisoned there.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatrePustolov pred vratimaMilan Begović · 1926not translated into EnglishA dream play, in which the whole world fits into a sickroom and what knocks at the door has no name.Literature
PoetryLirikaDobriša Cesarić · 1931not translated into EnglishA slim first book in which the labour does not show: the language is everyone's, and that is what makes these poems impossible to imitate.Literature
NovelThe Return of Philip LatinowiczPovratak Filipa LatinoviczaMiroslav Krleža · 1932The novel by which Croatian prose entered its century, and which critics compare to Proust for its way of going back through time by means of sensations.Literature
PoetryProljetna svitanjaVinko Nikolić · 1935not translated into EnglishThe first book of a poet whom the defeat of 1945 will drive away for forty-six years, and whose main work will later be a journal.Literature
Short storiesMi smo za pravicuSlavko Kolar · 1936not translated into EnglishThe mature book of a humorist who is never unkind to his characters, and for whom comedy serves to carry across very harsh things.Literature
PoetryThe PitJamaIvan Goran Kovačić · 1944A long poem written in the maquis by a man who had not seen what he describes, and whom the war killed before it appeared.Literature
CinemaLisinskiOktavijan Miletić · 1944The Illyrian movement as told in 1944 under the Ustaše state: the life of a musician who wanted an opera in his own language.Cinema
PoetryZore i vihoriVesna Parun · 1947not translated into EnglishThe first book of a twenty-five-year-old woman, attacked from the moment it appeared for speaking of herself when she should have spoken of the people.Literature
PoetrySvemir osobeViktor Vida · 1951not translated into EnglishThe first of the two books that an exile would see published in his lifetime, printed in Buenos Aires, and which critics in his country regard as a landmark date in his poetry.Literature
NovelDivota prašineVjekoslav Kaleb · 1954not translated into EnglishThe highest book of a writer of stone: two men who walk, and the dust of the road for their only setting.Literature
CinemaKoncertBranko Belan · 1954Thirty years of Croatian history, from Austria-Hungary to 1945, in the memory of a pianist.Cinema
TheatreIgra oko smrtiMarijan Matković · 1955not translated into EnglishTen plays written over twenty years and gathered all at once, in which the real character is the time passing over people whom nothing protects.Literature
CinemaDon't Look Back, My SonNe okreći se, sineBranko Bauer · 1956A war thriller set in occupied Zagreb: an escaped father wants to take his son back from those who indoctrinated him.Cinema
CinemaSamacVatroslav Mimica · 1958The age of machines seen through Zagreb animation: an employee alone against the machinery of the modern world.Cinema
CinemaH-8Nikola Tanhofer · 1958A 1957 news item told in reverse: the accident is known from the start, and all the suspense lies in the passengers' seats.Cinema
CinemaTrain Without a TimetableVlak bez voznog redaVeljko Bulajić · 1959The internal colonisation of post-war Yugoslavia, seen from the carriages of a train of migrants.Cinema
NovelCyclopsKiklopRanko Marinković · 1965Zagreb on the eve of the invasion of 1941: an intellectual who fasts to escape the army, among men of letters who quote Homer and Shakespeare.Literature
CinemaRondoZvonimir Berković · 1966A love triangle built like a rondo: every Sunday the same game of chess returns, slightly changed.Cinema
TheatreKing GordoganKralj GordoganRadovan Ivšić · 1968A bloody tale of tyranny, written in Zagreb in the midst of war by a twenty-two-year-old poet.Literature
NovelGold, Frankincense and MyrrhMirisi, zlato i tamjanSlobodan Novak · 1968On an island, a man at the bedside of an aristocrat dispossessed by the regime: the care given to a dying woman becomes the reckoning of his generation.Literature
CinemaAccidental LifeSlučajni životAnte Peterlić · 1969Two Zagreb office workers and their uneventful lives: an existential study of urban alienation.Cinema
CinemaHandcuffsLisiceKrsto Papić · 1969A village wedding in 1948, under the threat of the repression that followed the break with Stalin.Cinema
NovelKužiš, stari mojZvonimir Majdak · 1970not translated into EnglishBoys from the outskirts of Zagreb who speak the city's slang and turn their backs on everything adults call order.Literature
NovelČangi off GottoffAlojz Majetić · 1970not translated into EnglishA Zagreb hoodlum sent off to reform himself through voluntary labour: the ironic image of the socialist youth of his time.Literature
CinemaOne Song a Day Takes Mischief AwayTko pjeva zlo ne misliKrešimir Golik · 1970A week of sung vaudeville in the bourgeois Zagreb of the thirties, seen through a child's diary.Cinema
NovelBolja polovica hrabrostiIvan Slamnig · 1972not translated into EnglishA young philologist from Zagreb and an old spinster who writes as in the last century: two ways of storytelling set face to face.Literature
CinemaOccupation in 26 PicturesOkupacija u 26 slikaLordan Zafranović · 1978Three friends from Dubrovnik, a Croat, an Italian and a Jew, separated by the occupation of 1941.Cinema
CinemaYou Love Only OnceSamo jednom se ljubiRajko Grlić · 1981A communist and a bourgeois dancer in post-war Yugoslavia: a love caught between two worlds.Cinema
CinemaRhythm of a CrimeRitam zločinaZoran Tadić · 1981A district doomed to demolition and a statistician of crime: the fantastic slipped into Zagreb realism.Cinema
NovelPovijest pornografijeGoran Tribuson · 1988not translated into EnglishA generation born in 1948 in a small Yugoslav town: forty years of ordinary life, told through its loves, its films and its songs.Literature