Ivo Brešan | |
Birth Name: | Ivan Brešan[1] |
Birth Date: | 27 May 1936 |
Birth Place: | Vodice, Yugoslavia |
Death Place: | Zagreb, Croatia |
Nationality: | Croatian |
Citizenship: | Croatia |
Years Active: | ?–2016 |
Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb |
Ivan "Ivo" Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017)[1] [2] was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His works include screenplays written with his son Vinko.[3]
Born in Vodice in 1936, Brešan attended Antun Vrančić High School in Šibenik. He was married to Croatian writer Jelena Godlar, a Jew native to Slavonia.[4] In February 1964, she gave to birth their son Vinko, today a film director. Ivo's wife Jelena died on 20 September 2016.[5] He died after a long and severe illness on 3 January 2017 in Zagreb when he was 80 years of age.[6]