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.
Zorman was born in the village of Gora near Komenda in central Slovenia in 1926. 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. 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).
Adult ProseTrije Borjanovi (The Borjan Three), 1955Čez dvajset let bo vse drugače (In Twenty Years All Will Be Different), 1968Pedagoška komedija (The Educational Comedy), 1971Draga moja Iza (My Dear Iza), 1973Sončnica navadna (The Plain Sunflower), 1974Stric Benjamin (Uncle Benjamin), 1977Medved z budilko (The Bear with an Alarm Clock), 1982Vonj po jeseni (Smell of Autumn), 1978Dom človekov (A Man's Home), 1981Kdo bo meni prižgal sveče (Who Shall Light Candles for Me), 1982Portret revolucionarja Malusa (A Portrait of Malus the Revolutionary), 1985Leta herojev (Years of Heroes), 1988Lectovo srce (Lebkuchen Heart), 1989V znamenju tehtnice (In the Sign of Virgo), 1989Stiska bogov (Anguish of the Gods), 1991Donata (Donata), 1991Kajnov rod (Cain's Clan), 1991Vila Bagari (Villa Bagari), 1997Ko odletijo lastovke (When The Swallows Fly Away), 1999Okus po marcipanu (A Taste of Marzipan), 2002Prose for Young ReadersIz obroča (Out of the Ring), 1953Svobodni gozdovi (Free Forests), 1954Eno samo je življenje (We Only Live Once), 1963Na senčni strani mesta (On the Shady Side of Town), 1967Gnezdo sršenov (A Hornets' Nest), 1968V tem mesecu se osipa mak (This is the Month the Poppies Scatter), 1969V sedemnajstem (At Seventeen), 1972Storžkovo popoldne (Storžek's Afternoon), 1973Rosni zaliv (Dew Bay), 1975Tinčevi divji doživljaji (Little Tine's Wild Adventures), 1978Naši kurirji (Our Partisan Couriers), 1978Uporne Dražgoše (Dražgoše the Village That Rebelled), 1978Bolničarka Vida (Vida the Partisan Nurse), 1978Rada bi bila velika (I Would Like to Grow Up), 1979Obveščevalec Lesnika (Lesnika the Informer), 1979Deklica iz Mihovega mlina (The Girl from Miha's Mill), 1982Hrčki smrčki (Sniffy Hamsters), 1983Oh, ta naša babica (Oh, This Granny of Ours), 1986Sla po letenju (A Desire to Fly), 1987Račka Puhačka (Fluffy Duckling), 1988Ded Nil in teta Filipa (Grandpa Nil and Aunt Phillipa), 1989Bolečina odraščanja (Growing Pains), 1993