Milan Begović
Milan Begović was a Croatian writer, born in Vrlika, in the territory of today's Croatia.
He was educated in Split, Zagreb and Vienna and spent some time as high school professor in Split before going to Hamburg and Vienna to pursue career in theatre. Begović wrote stories and novels, but he is best known for plays he wrote in 1920 and 1930. The best known titles are Pustolov pred vratima and comedy Amerikanska jahta u splitskoj luci. He also wrote the lyrics for a famous Croatian opera Ero s onoga svijeta. In 1942, he edited Hrvatska proza XX. stoljeća, a collection of contemporary Croatian writers.
With the establishment of communist Yugoslavia in 1945, the Writers' Society of Croatia judged that Begović had collaborated with the war-time Independent State of Croatia. Begović died in Zagreb in 1948 and, due to his falling out with the regime, his death was neither announced nor given special honours. He was buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.
