The event, organised by the Vlado Gotovac Foundation from Zagreb and the Croatian Writers' Society, pooled many writers from Croatia and Italy.
Croatian politician and writer Gotovac died in Rome on 7 December 2000. This intellectual and humanist, who left an indelible mark on Croatia's recent political and cultural scene, had been advocating the notion of freedom, human rights and the moral re-examination of society since the early 1950s The Croatian public will remember him primarily as a politician atypical for Croatian circumstances, as an exceptional speaker, a stranger to scandals.