New Stories from Žumberak, The Land of Tourism & Futurism / in ENGLISH
August Šenoa (1838-1881) Croatian writer of popular historical novels New Stories from Žumberak, The Land of Tourism and Futurism While the last I was writing about one uskok from Žumberak, Janko Šajatović Krabat, who became celebrated abroad, primarily in German countries, this time the subject is an important and well-known Croatian writer who is not a native of Žumberak. He lived in Zagreb but was very close to this region whole his life. August Šenoa (1838-1881) is the most important Croatian writer of historical novels in the 19th century. He was not only a friend of Tadija Smičiklas, a well-known historian from Žumberak, to whom Šenoa devoted this Latinised poem, calling him "Croatian Herodotus", moreover in his historical novels, mostly placed in the 16th and 17th centuries, August Šenoa wrote about the royal soldiers from Žumberak or about uskoks, as well soldiers and occasional pirates who moved in a large number from Senj to Žumberak in t...