Following his childhood and education in his hometown of Lukovdol, Goran enrolled at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy for Slavic Studies but soon dropped out and devoted himself to writing and journalism. He worked as a journalist and editor for the Croatian Daily and the News and, following the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, in the Croatian Publishing Bibliographic Institute. At the end of 1942, together with Vladimir Nazor, he joined the Partisan movement. Under never clarified circumstances he was killed by Chetniks on 12 July 1943 near the village of Vrbnica in the vicinity of FoŸça, thus realizing the prophecy from his poem My Grave. Goran liked to write while listening to music. Original context on the page: www.hismus.hr/ english/goran_eng.htm
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Ivan Goran Kovacic
