Dušan Jovanović

Dušan Jovanović (1 October 1939 – 1 January 2021) was a Slovene theatre director, playwright and essayist, known for his experimental and grotesque satirical theatre. Since 2005 he was also the president of the Prešeren Foundation.

Jovanović was born in Belgrade in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war he moved to Ljubljana with his father and went on to study English and French at the University of Ljubljana and also graduated in stage direction from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In the late 1960s and 1970s he participated in numerous experimental theatre groups and was artistic director at the Mladinsko Theatre between 1978 and 1985. Since 1989 he was also assistant professor at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. He was also author of numerous film and TV scripts.

Since the late 1990s Jovanović became also an acclaimed columnist and essayist. In 2008 he received the Rožanc Award for his essay collection Svet je drama (The World is a Drama).

Published works Prose Don Juan na psu ali Zdrav duh v zdravem telesu, 1969

Plays Predstave ne bo, 1963 Norci, 1968 Znamke, nakar še Emilija, 1969 Igrajte tumor v glavi in onesnaževanje zraka, 1971 Življenje podeželskih plejbojev po drugi svetovni vojni ali tuje hočemo, svojega ne damo, 1972 Žrtve mode bum bum, 1975 Generacije, 1977 Vojaška skrivnost, 1983 Osvoboditev Skopja, 1977 Karamazovi, 1980 Viktor ali dan mladosti, 1989 Jasnovidka ali Dan mrtvih, 1989 Zid, jezero, 1989 Antigona, 1996 Uganka korajže, 1994 Kdo to poje Sizifa, 1997 Karajan C/Klinika Kozarcky/Ekshibicionist, 1999 Ekshibicionist, under the pseudonym O. J. Traven, 2001

Essay collections Paberki, 1996 Moški, ženska, 2000 Sobotna knjiga, 2005 Svet je drama, 2007