Mirko Kovač (writer)

Mirko Kovač was a Yugoslav writer. In his rich career he wrote novels, short stories, essays, film scripts, TV and radio plays. Among his best known works are the novella Životopis Malvine Trifković, the novels Vrata od utrobe, Grad u zrcalu, the short story collection Ruže za Nives Koen, the book of essays Europska trulež and the scripts for some of the most successful films of Yugoslav cinema like Handcuffs, Playing Soldiers and Occupation in 26 Pictures among others. He was one quarter of the infamous Belgrade quartet, the other three being Danilo Kiš, Borislav Pekić and Filip David. ^{Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2013)}

26 December 1938

Born on the same birth date (26 December 1938): Alamgir Kabir (film maker) • Bahram Beyzai • Robert Hamerton-Kelly

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Alejo Carpentier • Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan • Bahram Beyzai • Caroll Spinney • Chris Daughtry • Elisabeth of the Palatinate • Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm • Gray Davis • James Kottak • Jean François de Saint-Lambert • Joe Alexander • Josef Janíček • José Ramos-Horta • Nobuhiko Matsunaka • Noel Hunt • Norm Ullman • Phil Spector • Rohan Kanhai • Steve Allen • Tatiana Sorokko • Étienne Constantin de Gerlache

Born in the same month (December 1938): Bahram Beyzai • Dick Sudhalter • Duane Armstrong • Frank Deford • Jay Arnette • Jean-Claude Malépart • Jon Voight • Lucien Bouchard • Matty Alou • McCoy Tyner • Michael Bogdanov • Noel Picard • Patrick Bauchau • Peter Snell • Rosalind Cash • Sandy Nelson