[1] He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

[1] In the 1970s he was blacklisted due to his criticism of the communist authorities, and lived for a while in a self-imposed exile in Germany.

From his debut novel Children of God (Djeca božja), published in 1946, Šegedin's work broke away from socialist realism and introduced existentialism into Croatian literature.

Šegedin served as a president of Matica hrvatska and the Croatian Writers' Association.

Šegedin is the 1991 laureate of the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement in Literature.