Zvane (Ivan) Črnja (October 8, 1920 – February 26, 1991) was a prominent Croatian poet, prose writer, essayist, culturologist, screenwriter, playwright and filmologist, journalist, publicist, polemicist and publisher.

At the beginning of June 1938, he founded the Istrian revolutionary organization Mlada Istra in Zagreb and edited its illegal newspaper Sloboda.

[1] In 1969, Zvane Črnja founded the renowned cultural organization Čakavski sabor in Žminj, whose secretary he was until 1977.

In 1979 he started a representative publishing project of anthological-encyclopedic editions Istria through the centuries, signing 60 books in 10 rounds as editor-in-chief.

Boris Biletić published an extensive monographic study on the literary work of Zvane Črnja entitled Bartuljska jabuka in 2001.