Ivo Brešan

Ivo Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017)[1] was a Croatian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko.[2]

Ivo Brešan
Brešan at the première of the film Will Not End Here in 2008
Born(1936-05-27)27 May 1936
Vodice, Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)
Died3 January 2017(2017-01-03) (aged 80)
Zagreb, Croatia
Occupation
  • Playwright
  • novelist
  • screenwriter
NationalityCroatian
CitizenshipCroatia
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
Years active?–2017
Spouse
Jelena Godlar
(
died 2016)
Children1

Personal life

Born in Vodice in 1936, he attended Antun Vrančić High School in Šibenik. He was married the late Croatian writer Jelena-Jela Brešan (née Godlar), a Jew from Slavonia. In February 1964, they got a son Vinko, today the film director. Ivo's wife Jelena, died on 20 September 2016, while he died after long and severe illness, on 3 January 2017 in Zagreb.[3]

Screenplays

References
  1. "Ivo Brešan". hciti.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Centre of ITI - UNESCO. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  2. Kelly, Laura (2001) "COMMUNISM AS VACATION DESTINATION", South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 1 June 2001.
  3. "UMRO IVO BREŠAN Jedan od najvećih suvremenih europskih dramatičara preminuo u 81. godini, nekoliko mjeseci nakon supruge". www.jutarnji.hr. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
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