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of plays concentrating on male-female relations, in which his heroes were often great historical persons. He has created a series of complex female characters. His heroines are both strong and emotional. He has written 55 plays to date, including Death of an Actor, All About Women, All About Men, George
Washington's Loves, Chekhov Says Good-Bye to Tolstoy, How To Kill The President, Greta Garbo's Secret, Laughing Prohibited, Parallel Worlds, Nora in Our Time, My Wife's Husband, Dr Freud's Patient, The Doll, Ice Cream, Beer, Your Every Birthday, Perfect Partner, etc.
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which the central personage is a slightly mentally challenged young man of twenty. As a forty-year-old, Gavran started to write psychological-existential novels inspired by biblical characters, bringing them nearer to the sensibilities of contemporary readers. These books have been popular with both believers and non-believers, since their messages are universal.
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Gavran has also written ten books for children and young people: All Sorts of Things in My Head, How Dad Won Mum, Head Over Heels in Love, Happy Days, Farewell Letter, Plays with a Head and a Tail, Try to Forget, Plays for children, The
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He debuted in 1983 with the drama Creon's
Antigone, speaking out forcefully about political manipulation. This was followed three years later by the drama Night of the Gods, the theme being the relationship between the artist and the powers-that-be under a totalitarian system. He then wrote a cycle
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Gavran was given the “Dr Alois Mock
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Gavran's books have been published worldwide. Gavran has received over 30 literary awards in
Croatia and abroad, including the CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME Award, given annually in Budapest to the best Central European author for the overall opus, as well as the EUROPEAN CIRCLE Award given to writers for
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He has had ten novels published: Forgotten Son, How We Broke Our Legs, Klara, Margita or A Journey into a Former Life, Judith, John the
Baptist, Pontius Pilate, The Only Witness to Beauty, Kafka's Friend and A Few Birds and One Sky along with two collections of short stories entitled Small Unusual
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In his early novels, Gavran describes the life in the
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