Marijan Matković

Marijan Matković was born in Karlovac on 21 September 1915. He attended the classical gymnasium in Zagreb, completed his law degree in 1941, and also studied art history in Vienna and Paris. His first play was staged when he was twenty; during the war he fell silent and went into hiding. He then headed the cultural programmes of Zagreb radio, was literary secretary of a publishing house and manager of the national theatre from 1949 to 1953. In 1961 he launched the journal Forum and until his death ran the Academy's institute of literature and theatre studies. He died in Zagreb on 31 July 1985.

In the catalogue 1

• TheatreIgra oko smrtiMarijan Matković · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature