Fiction
- Ivan, a fictional secondary character of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Ivan Braginski, the given name to the representation of Russia in the manga series, Hetalia: Axis Powers.
- Ivan the Fool, a fictional character of Ivan the Fool (story)
- Ivan Vanko, an antagonist from the Marvel Comics franchise The Invincible Iron Man and appears as the primary antagonist in the sequel to the film adaptation.
- Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a fictional character of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- A character in Nintendo's Golden Sun
- Ivan Vassilevich Lomov, a character in Anton Chekhov's one-act play, A Marriage Proposal
- Ivan Raidenovich Raikov, a character who appears in Hideo Kojima's video game, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater'.
- Ivan Ilych, the title character of Leo Tolstoy's book, The Death of Ivan Ilych.
- Ivan Karamazov, brother of protagonist Alyosha Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov
- Ivan is the doorman in the 2006 film Curious George.
- Ivan Veen is the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor.
- Ivan Drago is the popular Soviet boxer and nemesis of Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV.
- Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov (Bezdomny), a character in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, The Master and Margarita
Read more about this topic: Ivan (name)
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
—Shirley Abbott (b. 1934)
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)