Ivan Kusan(1933-2012)
- Writer
- Actor
Ivan Kusan was born in a family of Jaksa Kusan, respected bookstore owner
with many friends and contact among the creme of Sarajevo
intelligentsia. In 1939 the family settled in Zagreb where Ivan, at the
age of 10, wrote his first novel. His writing talent coincided with the
talent for visual arts as well as his leaning towards world travel. All
those tendencies would make him very popular and internationally
recognized children's book writer with first novel being published in
1956. After that, Kusan worked on the Zagreb radio-station. Between
1980 and his retirement in 1994 he taught Dramaturgy at Zagreb Drama
Academy. Ivan Kusan was married twice and has a son, Daniel, from
previous marriage.
