Meet the Author: Miro Gavran

As part of the Month of Croatian Books, Miro Gavran is coming to Pula. On Monday, 19 October 2026, at 6 p.m., he will talk about his works for adults in the Central Library Hall. The following day, he will meet primary school pupils from Pula at Kino Valli as part of the Knjiga u kinu programme.

Miro Gavran is a contemporary Croatian author, distinguished novelist, storyteller, and writer for adults and young readers. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages, and his books have been published in over 250 editions in Croatia and abroad. More than 400 theatre premieres based on his plays and comedies have been staged around the world, attracting audiences of over four million people. To date, he has written fifty plays, published eleven novels and ten books for children and young adults. He has received more than twenty literary and theatre awards in Croatia and abroad.

He has also written screenplays for the television films Djed i baka se rastaju and Zabranjeno smijanje. In Lithuania, his comedy Papučari was adapted into a Lithuanian-language film entitled Kako ukrasti ženu. Gavran has also written three librettos for the musicals Pacijenti, Byron and Veli Jože, as well as one for the opera Kraljevi i konjušari.

He is unique in Europe as the only living writer to have a theatre festival dedicated to his work that has been held continuously outside his homeland. Gavranfest was launched in Slovakia in 2023.