Goldsmith's Gold, Šenoa's first and most famous historical novel, is considered the first modern novel in Croatian literature. August Šenoa himself is the most widely read Croatian writer of all time.
Branislav Glumac published a novel without periods or commas in 1974, as the relentless stream of thought of a young rebel. Published in socialist Yugoslavia, the work caused a scandal with its openness and became a classic about generational rebellion.
At the end of the eighties, Damir Uzunović traveled to Paris and stayed there for less than a year. He was twenty years old at the time, and that exile episode would be formative for the literature he would later write.