Vladan Desnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Десница; 17 September 1905 – 4 March 1967) was a Yugoslav writer and translator.

[2] He wrote poems, short stories, science fiction and novels, usually dealing with life in cities and villages of northern Dalmatia.

[3] His best work is the novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba (The Springs of Ivan Galeb), published in 1957,[3] in which he gives a first-person account of an intellectual lying in a hospital bed and meditating about illness and mortality.

Vladan Desnica is buried in the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint George, next to the castle of Stojan Janković in Islam Grčki.

The church was destroyed by Croatian paramilitaries in Operation Maslenica in January 1993,[4] during which Desnica's gravestone was damaged.