WRITER

Ivo Brešan

1936 - 2017

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Ivan "Ivo" Brešan (27 May 1936 – 3 January 2017) was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivo Brešan has received more than 33,405 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivo Brešan is the 4,070th most popular writer (down from 3,517th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Croatia (down from 174th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Croatian Writer.

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  • 33k

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  • 50.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gorgone
Ispovijedi nekarakternog čovjeka
Nove groteskne tragedije
Prokletnici
Ptice nebeske
Država Božja 2053

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivo Brešan ranks 4,070 out of 7,302Before him are Norman Manea, Bozorg Alavi, Marco Foscarini, Hushang Ebtehaj, Oskar Maria Graf, and Claude Aveline. After him are Michel Carré, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Theodor Plievier, Ameen Rihani, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, and Osman Aqçoqraqlı.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ivo Brešan ranks 305Before him are Héctor Núñez, Eva Hesse, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Robert Langlands, Zdeněk Mácal, and Norman Manea. After him are Henri Richard, Oreste Corbatta, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, Jan Němec, Susana Duijm, and Ihor Turchyn. Among people deceased in 2017, Ivo Brešan ranks 275Before him are Alois Mock, Tim Pigott-Smith, Margot Hielscher, Ludvig Faddeev, Kim Jong-hyun, and Ely Ould Mohamed Vall. After him are Björn Granath, Hubert Dreyfus, András Kovács, Shunichiro Okano, Teresa Ann Savoy, and Ulli Lommel.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Ivo Brešan ranks 232 out of 700Before him are Simo Matavulj (1852), Juraj Dobrila (1812), Dario Šimić (1975), Mladen Mladenović (1964), Franjo Mihalić (1920), and Slavko Štimac (1960). After him are Giovanni Luppis (1813), Nina Badrić (1972), Paul Neményi (1895), Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652), Dado Pršo (1974), and Antun Gustav Matoš (1873).

Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Ivo Brešan ranks 27Before him are Antun Vrančić (1504), Andrija Kačić Miošić (1704), Ivo Vojnović (1857), Franco Sacchetti (1332), Antun Mihanović (1796), and Simo Matavulj (1852). After him are Pavao Ritter Vitezović (1652), Antun Gustav Matoš (1873), Giovanni Arpino (1927), Dimitrija Demeter (1811), Ranko Marinković (1913), and Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (1865).