Miro Gavran

He then wrote a cycle of plays concentrating on male-female relations, in which his heroes were often great historical persons.

He has written 55 plays to date, including Death of an Actor, All About Women, All About Men, George Washington's Loves, Chekhov Says Good-Bye to Tolstoy, How To Kill The President, Greta Garbo's Secret, Laughing Prohibited, Parallel Worlds, Nora in Our Time, My Wife's Husband, Dr Freud's Patient, The Doll, Ice Cream, Beer, Your Every Birthday, Perfect Partner, etc.

He has had ten novels published: Forgotten Son, How We Broke Our Legs, Klara, Margita or A Journey into a Former Life, Judith, John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate, The Only Witness to Beauty, Kafka's Friend and A Few Birds and One Sky along with two collections of short stories entitled Small Unusual People and Stories of Solitude.

This is perhaps best seen in his novel, Forgotten Son (1989), in which the central personage is a slightly mentally challenged young man of twenty.

As a forty-year-old, Gavran started to write psychological-existential novels inspired by biblical characters, bringing them nearer to the sensibilities of contemporary readers.

He received the Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria in Austrian Cultural Forum, Zagreb on March 20.

The festival known as the GavranFest was founded in the city of Trnava in Slovakia in 2003, moved to Kraków in Poland in 2013, from 2016 to 2018 held in Prague in the Czech Republic, in 2019 in Augsburg in Germany, and 2020 Belgrade, Serbia.