Croatian literature

Bela sela, beli vez

"Bela sela, beli vez" is the title of Nada Maletić's second book of poetry, and it is characterized by the language in which it was written, which was once spoken in the villages near Valpovo, and a humorous style.

Bezdan

Bezimeni

Bijeg

Milutin Cihlar Nehajev

A psychological novel about the downfall of the gifted intellectual Đuro Andrijašević, who flees from reality but finds no salvation in either the city or the province. A classic of Croatian modernism (1909).

Bijeli kamen

A moving novel by Vjekoslav Kaleb about a boy named Zvone who, while growing up in the Dalmatian karst landscape, learns about the hardships of life, human virtues, poverty, and the beauty of his native region.

Bijelo prijestolje

A novel set in contemporary life in which the author follows the fates of members of the rural intelligentsia, their ideals, moral dilemmas, and everyday struggles in Croatian society between the two wars.

Bilješka o piscu: Neljubavni roman

A Writer's Note is the first bestseller by beloved Croatian author Julijana Matanović. A hit since its publication, the novel reminds us that the past cannot be erased, only understood.

Biserje samoće

Colors are bright, sounds are clear, and smells are intoxicating in the poetry of Steve Leskarca (Dubica, 1963), who sings about the beauty of nature and the joy of love, even though he is aware of life's bitterness, which becomes "at least a little sweet

Bjegunci

The novel Fugitives, which Cesarec wrote throughout the 1920s and finally published in 1933, tells the story of emigrants who fled the Yugoslav and Hungarian regimes to Prague, the capital of the then democratic republic of Czechoslovakia.

Blato

Miana Vlaović's debut novel is a story about three generations of women in a patriarchal province, filled with recurring patterns of fate - love, betrayal, poverty, violence, and small struggles for dignity.