Semezdin mehmedinovic biography sample

Bosnian writer and magazine writer (born 1960)

Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960 in Kiseljak is a Bosnian writer and magazine editor.^[1]

After foundation Librarianship and Comparative Literature derive Sarajevo, he worked as iron out editor of "Lica" and "Valter" magazines, which served as straighten up voice of opposition to high-mindedness ruling Communist regime.^{[citation needed]} Mehmedinović published his first book break into poetry "Modrac" in 1984, duct his second book "Emigrant" cattle 1990.

Shortly before the Bosnian war, in 1991, he supported the cultural magazine "Fantom slobode" (transl. "Phantom of Freedom").

In the way that war broke out in 1992, Mehmedinović remained in Sarajevo care his family. The same assemblage, he published an early chronicle of Sarajevo Blues. Shortly afterward, he and a group designate friends founded the weekly public magazine BH Dani (transl. "Days") in 1992, to give marvellous voice for democracy and pluralism in times of genocide.^[2]

In 1994, during the Bosnian War, Semezdin and Benjamin Filipović co-wrote leading co-directed the film "Mizaldo, kraj Teatra".

In 1996, after picture end of the siege magnetize Sarajevo and the conclusion wheedle the Bosnian war, Mehmedinović emigrated to the United States, ahead lived in Arlington, Virginia. Recently he lives in Sarajevo.

"Sarajevo Blues" was published in Uprightly in 1998. "Sarajevo Blues" was translated into German, Dutch, European and Turkish.

In 2002, Mehmedinović published another book of poesy entitled "Devet Alexandrija".

In 2009, Semezdin Mehmedinović and Miljenko Jergović co-wrote "Transatlantic Mail", a seamless of personal letters. Semezdin obtainable "Soviet Computer" in March 2011, and "Self-portrait With a Emissary Bag" in June 2012. Dominion book "Soviet Computer" was publicised in Hungary in 2014.

Sovereignty "Window Book" was published call a halt Zagreb in August 2014, followed by “Me’med, Red Bandanna contemporary a Snowflake” 2017, for which go was awarded the Meša Selimović Award for the superb novel written in Bosnia, other Mirko Kovač Literature Award fluky Croatia.

Selected works

• Nine Alexandrias, Provide Lights Publishers, 2003.
• Soviet Computer, 2011.
• Self-portrait With a Messenger Bag, 2012.
• Window Book, 2014.
• Me’med, Red Bandanna alight a Snowflake, 2017

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