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): Ahmed Barusso • Aksel Lund Svindal • Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan • Brandon Scherff • Caroll Spinney • Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry • Denis Cheryshev • Ernst Moritz Arndt • George Dewey • James Mercer (musician) • Josef Janíček • Keith Martin Ball • Leonardo Ghiraldini • Olga Lopes-Seale • Ozzie Smith • Robert Bolling • Tom Wass • Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Born in the same month (December 1938): Alamgir Kabir (film maker) • Atje Keulen-Deelstra • Charlie Griffith • Chas Chandler • Duane Armstrong • Frank Deford • Gus Johnson (basketball) • Joel Hirschhorn • Larry Bryggman • McCoy Tyner • Patrick Bauchau • Robert Hamerton-Kelly • Yuri Temirkanov • Yvonne Minton