Ivana, the “Croatian Tolkien”

Couple of days ago on the community weblog MetaFilter there was a post about Croatian fairy-tale author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938), known also as the “Croatian Andersen” or “Croatian Tolkien”. Her most famous fairy-tale collection, Croatian Tales of Long Ago (1916), was adapted as a flash animation couple of years ago, some of which can be viewed online, and there’s also the original book in English translation (1923) available at Internet Archive …