Pero Kvesić

Pero Kvesić was born in 1950 in Zagreb and graduated in sociology and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He wrote for Omladinski tjednik, Tlo and Studentski list. In 1977 he launched Polet, a magazine for young readers, and acted as its first editor-in-chief. He was editor-in-chief at Pitanja and in 1984 he launched the Quorum magazine and publications, publishing a large number of prose works including some of the best known short story collections, Uvod u Peru K. (1975), Mladi K. (1983), Uspomene urednika erotskog magazina (2003) and Vrijeme rata i razonode (2014), and novels Što mi rade i što im radim (1984), Rent-a-car express (2000) and Stjecaj okolnosti (2002). He published several poetry collections and several novels for children and picture books.

In 2007 and 2009 he was included in the Danish school curriculum as an obligatory read. In 1987, mentored by Dušan Vukotić, he prepared a series, writer’s concept and character concept of the animated serial The Little Flying Bears for Zagreb film. In the early 1970s, he wrote scripts for national television’s School Programme, and he is also the author of several TV dramas and documentary shows and films. He worked on the screenplay of the film The Melody Haunts My Memory and wrote screenplays for short animated films by Dušan Vukotić and Pavao Štalter. Pero Kvesić has written screenplays for several TV dramas, documentary films and series, as well as short animated films. He has collaborated on the screenplay for Rajko Grlić’s film You Love Only Once. He had been writing the blog Čovjek-vadičep sreće ženu-ribu, and he published photographs of friends, acquaintances and random passers-by on his blog Bablfotograf.

Dum spiro spero, his debut film produced in 2016, won the Grand Prix at the Croatian Film Days, Vedran Šamanović Award at Pula Film Festival, Best Mid-Length Documentary Award at Festival dei popoli, and Golden Horn Award at the Krakow Film Festival. 

Pero Kvesić passed away in 2023.