Immediate, modest, so funny, with a boyish smile on the one hand and inexhaustible literary knowledge on another, Miro Gavran is all this and much more. Such was the literary evening cantered around him at University of Split’s Gallery.

Coming to Split, one cannot avoid talking about Judith: "This year saw the 13th edition of the eponym novel. As this is also the year of Marulić's "Judita", this novel of mine somehow fit in, and Mozaik knjiga published it in a special way, putting the epic by Marulić, an episode from the Bible and my novel in one same book, so that readers can compare these three stories about Judith. Cvijeta Pavlović wrote a big afterword."

Less than three months ago, his book "Selected Dramas, from 2001 to 2021" was published, a selection of nine plays Miro Gavran wrote over the past two decades. Of these nine, one was performed in Split, "Parallel Worlds", also performed about 10 years ago at the Croatian National Theater in Osijek. There are also plays the "Perfect Partner", "Coffee at Noon" and "Spokesman". The book also contains older texts "Greta Garbo’s Secret", "How to Kill the President", also a recent one "Waiting for the Father", that Gavran wrote following the idea of Michal Viewegh, a great Czech author: "We agreed that he would wrote a novel based on my idea, and I would wrote a play based on his. We met in Prague, he attended the seventh Gavran Fest there, we started hanging out and got the idea to work together. Now it is his turn to start with the novel. "

One of the leading Macedonian writers, Venko Andonovski, wrote the afterword for „Selected Plays, 2001 to 2021”.

Started recently, Miro Gavran has another role, as president of Matica hrvatska, where he has big plans. University of Split Rector, prof. Dragan Ljutić Ph.D., assured him that University’s doors are always open to him and, in addition to greeting the esteemed guest and enjoying the literary evening, thanked him for the honour his arrival to University of Split presents.

Professor of Croatian language and literature, Anđela Boljat, moderated the literary evening and the head of University Gallery, Helena Trze Jakelić, organized the event together with University of Split’s support.

P.S. Miro Gavran still writes everything in pencil first, because that way it is closer to his heart.