{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer | name = Ivo Zorman | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|05|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Gora pri Komendi, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now in Slovenia) | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|01|14|1926|05|03|df=y}} | death_place = Kamnik, Slovenia | occupation = writer and editor | nationality = | spouse = | children = | genre = | movement = | notableworks = Draga moja Iza, V sedemnajstem, V tem mesecu se osipa mak | awards = {{Awards|Levstik Award|1969|for V tem mesecu se osipa mak}} | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Ivo Zorman''' (3 May 1926 – 14 January 2009) was a Slovene writer and editor. He wrote short stories and novels as well as radio plays.<ref>[http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/umrl-je-ivo-zorman/157926 Obituary] on the RTV Slovenia site, 21 January 2009</ref>

Zorman was born in the village of Gora near Komenda in central Slovenia in 1926.<ref name="Jugoslovenski književni leksikon">{{cite book |author= Stanko Janež |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |language=sh |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) |pages=590 }}</ref> He went to school in Ljubljana and as a young man participated in the Slovene resistance and joined the Partisans. After the war he worked as a teacher for a while and then an editor until his retirement in 1977. He often used themes from his experiences in the war in his work. One of his best-known novels is ''Draga moja Iza'' (Μy Dear Iza) which was made into a film in 1979.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131227191635/http://nl.ijs.si/fedora/get/sbl:4808/VIEW/ Ivo Zorman on the Slovene Biographical Lexicon site]</ref> He died in Kamnik in 2009.

In 1969 he won the Levstik Award for his book ''V tem mesecu se osipa mak'' (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |title=The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site |access-date=30 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade |archive-date=26 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Published works==

; Adult Prose * ''Trije Borjanovi'' (The Borjan Three), 1955 * ''Čez dvajset let bo vse drugače'' (In Twenty Years All Will Be Different), 1968 * ''Pedagoška komedija'' (The Educational Comedy), 1971 * ''Draga moja Iza'' (My Dear Iza), 1973 * ''Sončnica navadna'' (The Plain Sunflower), 1974 * ''Stric Benjamin'' (Uncle Benjamin), 1977 * ''Medved z budilko'' (The Bear with an Alarm Clock), 1982 * ''Vonj po jeseni'' (Smell of Autumn), 1978 * ''Dom človekov'' (A Man's Home), 1981 * ''Kdo bo meni prižgal sveče'' (Who Shall Light Candles for Me), 1982 * ''Portret revolucionarja Malusa'' (A Portrait of Malus the Revolutionary), 1985 * ''Leta herojev'' (Years of Heroes), 1988 * ''Lectovo srce'' (Lebkuchen Heart), 1989 * ''V znamenju tehtnice'' (In the Sign of Virgo), 1989 * ''Stiska bogov'' (Anguish of the Gods), 1991 * ''Donata'' (Donata), 1991 * ''Kajnov rod'' (Cain's Clan), 1991 * ''Vila Bagari'' (Villa Bagari), 1997 * ''Ko odletijo lastovke'' (When The Swallows Fly Away), 1999 * ''Okus po marcipanu'' (A Taste of Marzipan), 2002

; Prose for Young Readers * ''Iz obroča'' (Out of the Ring), 1953 * ''Svobodni gozdovi'' (Free Forests), 1954 * ''Eno samo je življenje'' (We Only Live Once), 1963 * ''Na senčni strani mesta'' (On the Shady Side of Town), 1967 * ''Gnezdo sršenov'' (A Hornets' Nest), 1968 * ''V tem mesecu se osipa mak'' (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter), 1969 * ''V sedemnajstem'' (At Seventeen), 1972 * ''Storžkovo popoldne'' (Storžek's Afternoon), 1973 * ''Rosni zaliv'' (Dew Bay), 1975 * ''Tinčevi divji doživljaji'' (Little Tine's Wild Adventures), 1978 * ''Naši kurirji'' (Our Partisan Couriers), 1978 * ''Uporne Dražgoše'' (Dražgoše the Village That Rebelled), 1978 * ''Bolničarka Vida'' (Vida the Partisan Nurse), 1978 * ''Rada bi bila velika'' (I Would Like to Grow Up), 1979 * ''Obveščevalec Lesnika'' (Lesnika the Informer), 1979 * ''Deklica iz Mihovega mlina'' (The Girl from Miha's Mill), 1982 * ''Hrčki smrčki'' (Sniffy Hamsters), 1983 * ''Oh, ta naša babica'' (Oh, This Granny of Ours), 1986 * ''Sla po letenju'' (A Desire to Fly), 1987 * ''Račka Puhačka'' (Fluffy Duckling), 1988 * ''Ded Nil in teta Filipa'' (Grandpa Nil and Aunt Phillipa), 1989 * ''Bolečina odraščanja'' (Growing Pains), 1993

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