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Ivan Goran Kovai was a prominent Croatian poet and writer of the 20th century.

He was born in Lukovdol , a town in Gorski Kotar, to Croatian father Ivan and Transylvanian Jewish mother Rua . His middle name Goran stems from that . Kovai attended the Gymnasium in the city of Karlovac in Croatia. In his honour, the Karlovac city library the citys oldest cultural institution founded in 1838 was renamed after him. Many schools in the successor states still bear his name.

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