Ivo Zorman

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.
Zorman was born in the village of Gora near Komenda in central Slovenia in 1926. 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. 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).