Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh (Croatian: Balade Petrice Kerempuha) is a philosophically poetical work by Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, composed in form of thirty poems between December 1935 and March 1936. Krleža usually did not write in Kaikavian literary language, but decided to put this over 1000 years old language into the focus of this work. He succeeded to show that even if in his time Kaikavian language was not used in formal domains of life, it was still possible to create a work of great literal expression in it.