A ZN.UA opinion essay (23 August 2026) by Oleg Suprunenko revisits two lesser-known European classics who happen to share the name August: Sweden’s August Strindberg and Croatia’s August Šenoa. Suprunenko summarizes Strindberg’s role as a founder of modern Swedish literature and theatre, recounting his “inferno” crisis, occult interests and political swings. The piece notes recent Ukrainian availability: a 2025 reprint of Strindberg’s novel The Red Room by publisher Shche odnu storinku (One More Page) and a 2024 reissue of a short-story collection, plus older translations by Olga Senyuk dating from 1983.
Suprunenko then profiles Šenoa as the father of the Croatian novel, author of Zlatarevo zlato and the Peasant Revolt, and an early Croatian translator and promoter of Taras Shevchenko. He points out that Šenoa remains little translated into Ukrainian (a single 1957 edition existed, translated from Russian) and suggests Ukrainian readers and publishers might consider restoring him to view. The essay also mentions that the publisher Shche odnu storinku was among printing houses hit during August’s ballistic attacks on Ukrainian typography, a detail the author uses to underline the fragility of local publishing.