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Ivo Zorman (3 May 1926 – 14 January 2009) was a Slovene writer and editor. He wrote short stories and novels as well as radio plays.[1]

Ivo Zorman
Born	(1926-05-03)3 May 1926 Gora pri Komendi, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia)
Died	14 January 2009(2009-01-14) (aged 82) Kamnik, Slovenia
Occupation	writer and editor
Notable works	Draga moja Iza, V sedemnajstem, V tem mesecu se osipa mak
Notable awards	Levstik Award 1969 for V tem mesecu se osipa mak

Zorman was born in the village of Gora near Komenda in central Slovenia in 1926.[2] He went to school in Ljubljana and as a young man participated in the Slovene resistance and joined the Partisans. After the war he worked as a teacher for a while and then an editor until his retirement in 1977. He often used themes from his experiences in the war in his work. One of his best-known novels is Draga moja Iza (Μy Dear Iza) which was made into a film in 1979.[3] He died in Kamnik in 2009.

In 1969 he won the Levstik Award for his book V tem mesecu se osipa mak (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter).[4]

Published works

Adult Prose

• Trije Borjanovi (The Borjan Three), 1955
• Čez dvajset let bo vse drugače (In Twenty Years All Will Be Different), 1968
• Pedagoška komedija (The Educational Comedy), 1971
• Draga moja Iza (My Dear Iza), 1973
• Sončnica navadna (The Plain Sunflower), 1974
• Stric Benjamin (Uncle Benjamin), 1977
• Medved z budilko (The Bear with an Alarm Clock), 1982
• Vonj po jeseni (Smell of Autumn), 1978
• Dom človekov (A Man's Home), 1981
• Kdo bo meni prižgal sveče (Who Shall Light Candles for Me), 1982
• Portret revolucionarja Malusa (A Portrait of Malus the Revolutionary), 1985
• Leta herojev (Years of Heroes), 1988
• Lectovo srce (Lebkuchen Heart), 1989
• V znamenju tehtnice (In the Sign of Virgo), 1989
• Stiska bogov (Anguish of the Gods), 1991
• Donata (Donata), 1991
• Kajnov rod (Cain's Clan), 1991
• Vila Bagari (Villa Bagari), 1997
• Ko odletijo lastovke (When The Swallows Fly Away), 1999
• Okus po marcipanu (A Taste of Marzipan), 2002

Prose for Young Readers

• Iz obroča (Out of the Ring), 1953
• Svobodni gozdovi (Free Forests), 1954
• Eno samo je življenje (We Only Live Once), 1963
• Na senčni strani mesta (On the Shady Side of Town), 1967
• Gnezdo sršenov (A Hornets' Nest), 1968
• V tem mesecu se osipa mak (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter), 1969
• V sedemnajstem (At Seventeen), 1972
• Storžkovo popoldne (Storžek's Afternoon), 1973
• Rosni zaliv (Dew Bay), 1975
• Tinčevi divji doživljaji (Little Tine's Wild Adventures), 1978
• Naši kurirji (Our Partisan Couriers), 1978
• Uporne Dražgoše (Dražgoše the Village That Rebelled), 1978
• Bolničarka Vida (Vida the Partisan Nurse), 1978
• Rada bi bila velika (I Would Like to Grow Up), 1979
• Obveščevalec Lesnika (Lesnika the Informer), 1979
• Deklica iz Mihovega mlina (The Girl from Miha's Mill), 1982
• Hrčki smrčki (Sniffy Hamsters), 1983
• Oh, ta naša babica (Oh, This Granny of Ours), 1986
• Sla po letenju (A Desire to Fly), 1987
• Račka Puhačka (Fluffy Duckling), 1988
• Ded Nil in teta Filipa (Grandpa Nil and Aunt Phillipa), 1989
• Bolečina odraščanja (Growing Pains), 1993

References

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