Igor Mandić

Igor Mandić (born in Šibenik, November 20, 1939) is a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist. According to literature historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić is the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper writer of the second half of the 20th century. His polemic texts have marked a Yugoslav publicist epoch of the 1960s and 1970s. Known for his fresh, sharp writing style and contrarian views, he has been dubbed "the master of quarrel".