Karl Emil Franzos

Who was Karl Emil Franzos?

Karl Emil Franzos was a popular Austrian novelist of the late the 19th century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of Galicia, Podolia and Bukovina, now largely in Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met. This area became so closely associated with his name that one critic called it “Franzos country”. A number of his books were translated into English, and Gladstone is said to have been among his admirers.