Ivan Goran Kovacic (1913-1943) was one of the greatest Croatian writers of the 20th century. He was born in Lukovdol, a town in Gorski Kotar, a mountainous region of western Croatia, and his middle name Goran stems from that.


. Kovacic, Ivan Goran, Novele, eseji i kritike, pjesme, (Novels, essays and
critic, poems), Znanje, Zagreb, 1967., hardcover, DJ, 350 pp. Kovacic is the
greatest war poet from Croatia and this volume contains several war poems.