Mr. Karan was born in 1934 in Međuvođe (Pogleđevo Hamlet), near Kozarska Dubica, Vrbas Banate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During the World War II, on the mountain Kozara, he was lost and separated from his parents, so he survived days and days in the hills of the same mountain on his own. He dedicated several of his achievements to those days.
After the World War II, he worked and at the same time attended a high school in Stara Pazova, Serbia. After that, in Banja Luka he graduatared from the Teachers Training College with major in Serbian language and literature.
He worked as a journalist, writing for several newspapers, he published supplements related to everyday life and that was his introductory path to the world of literature. Later he published short stories, humorous literature and dramas' articles.
The first Karan’s novel “Red Traces” was bought in 1980 at the contest organised by “Dnevnik” Novi Sad, Serbia in the category - National Liberation Movement. Later he wrote many novels and collections of short stories.
Karan was awarded on several occasions at literature contests. He received the prizes for his novels “Joja” and “In the Land of Tears” and for the collection of short stories. Karan successfully writes mono-dramas, screenplays and humoresques. He has written over forty books, and over twenty have been published so far.
Human journeys and human characters attract Karan’s attention in his works. Conflicts between ideas and ideologies are not of his personal nature, but the result of time and evolution of planets. Division of states, nations and religions at the eternally windy Balkans, where he, using Van Gog’s colours, paints landscape and people, creating an effect of translucent brightness through whose sparks protrude sparkles of hope and belief that after the dark night bright dawn comes, an exit from the tunnel.