Miro Gavran elected as a regular member of the Duklja Academy of Sciences and Arts in Montenegro

At the annual session of the Assembly of the Duklja Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU), held on Saturday, October 25, four new regular members were elected: Croatian writer Miro Gavran, academic sculptor Zlatko Glamočak, Doctor of Technical Sciences Dušan Petranović, and Doctor of Political Sciences Srđan Martinović.

Aleksandar Mugoša, Director of the Center for Cardiac Surgery, was elected President of DANU, while Sreten Vujović, poet and translator, was elected President of the Assembly.

The Duklja Academy of Sciences and Arts was founded in 1999, with the renowned Montenegrin poet and dissident Jevrem Brković as its first president.

Miro Gavran is the most frequently performed Croatian playwright both in his homeland and abroad, with more than 450 theatre premieres across all continents. His plays have been seen by over four million spectators. His works have been translated into 44 languages, and his books have had more than 250 editions published in Croatia and abroad, with a total print run exceeding one million copies.

Gavran is the only living playwright in Europe – and possibly in the world – to have had a theatre festival dedicated to his works, GavranFest, organized in as many as five different countries, featuring productions based on his plays and comedies.