Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. She started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century. Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today.In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology. Brlić-Mažuranić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. However, she never won the prize due to the fact that, in her time, the prize was not accustomed to be given to women. read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Brlić-Maž...