author
Ludwig Huna
1872–1945
An Austrian novelist and dramatist who moved from a military career into popular historical fiction, he is best remembered for vivid, dramatic stories set in the Renaissance. His best-known work is the Borgia trilogy, which helped make his name with readers in the early 20th century.
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Granada in Flammen : Roman
by Ludwig Huna
About the author
Born in Vienna on January 18, 1872, Ludwig Huna trained for the army and served as an officer before leaving military life and turning fully to writing. He had already begun publishing while still in service, and after 1906 he devoted himself to a literary career.
Huna wrote novels and plays, but his strongest reputation came from historical fiction. Reference works describe his novels as conventional yet highly effective, and his most famous books are the three Borgia novels Die Stiere von Rom (1920), Der Stern der Orsini (1921), and Das Mädchen von Nettuno (1922), later known together as the Borgia trilogy.
He died on November 28, 1945. Today he is remembered mainly as a storyteller of large-scale, dramatic historical romance, especially for readers drawn to intrigue, power struggles, and richly staged European settings.