Vladan Desnica (September 17, 1905 – March 4, 1967) was a Serbian and Croatian writer.
Life
He was born in Zadar, then part of Austria-Hungary. His father Uroš Desnica (von Desnica) was politician from noble Serbian orthodox family from Obrovac and Islam Grčki, descendant of Stojan Janković [1], and his mother Fani Desnica was from catholic family Luković from Prčanj near Kotor in what is today Montenegro [2]
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 illness 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.[citation needed]
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 cinema.
References
- ^ Baština dvora Jankovica, Istorijski muzej Srbije, Beograd 2006, p. 92.
- ^ According to family tradition Luković family came from Foča (today Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina), over montenegrin mountains to Prčanj (Montenegro) in 17th century. Don Niko Luković, Prčanj, Kotor 1937, p. 217.
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