Faruk Šehić

Faruk Šehić is a writer and fisherman. Born in Bihać, SFRY. Until April 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb, which he abandoned, returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and became a member of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992 – 1995). He was seriously wounded once. As an officer, he was awarded for his war skills. He documented his immediate wartime experience in the book of short stories Pod pritiskom. Literary criticism considers him the voice of the so-called 'overrun generation' of writers born in the seventies of the 20th century. He is the winner of numerous awards, the most significant of which are: the Meša Selimović award for the novel Knjiga o Uni for the best book published in Serbia, Croatia, BiH and Montenegro in 2011, the EUPL award 2013 (European Prize for Literature) for the same novel, and XXXI Premio Letterario Camaiore – Francesco Belluomini (Premio Internazionale) for the selection of poetry Ritorno alla natura. His last published book is the novel Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja (2024). His books have been translated into sixteen world languages ​​and published in twenty countries. He writes for the daily newspaper Oslobođenje. He lives in Sarajevo.

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