Vladan Desnica
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Vladan Desnica (September 17, 1905 - March 4, 1967) is a Serbian and Croatian writer.
He was born in Zadar, then part of Austria-Hungary, in an ethnic mixed family. His father was from noble Serbian family and his mother was from old Croatian family Luković.
He wrote poems, short stories and novels, usually dealing with the life in cities and villages of Northern Dalmatia. His best work is novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba (Springs of Ivan Galeb), published in 1957, in which he gives first-person account of an intellectual lying in hospital bed and meditating about ilnness and mortality. He died in Zagreb.
Like many writers who used to work in Yugoslavia, he is claimed both by Croatian and Serbian literature. In 1980s it was discovered that he had made literary contributions to a newspaper run by Chetniks during World War II, but his standing within Croatian literature remained high.
His talents were also used for the medium of film. In 1954 he wrote the script for Koncert, one of the most important titles in the history of Yugoslav (and Croatian) cinema.
