Radovan Ivšić

Died in 2009

Radovan Ivšić was born in Zagreb in 1921, the son of the linguist Stjepan Ivšić. He began writing for the stage at twenty. In 1942, Ante Pavelić personally had his first book, a poem published at his own expense, seized, and he remained without an audience in his own country for nearly twenty years. Settled in Paris at the end of 1954 at the invitation of André Breton, he joined the Surrealist group and in 1955 signed its last manifesto; he later founded a publishing house with Annie Le Brun. He refused all prizes and died in Paris in 2009.

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TheatreKing GordoganKralj GordoganRadovan Ivšić · 1968Literature