Faruk Šehić

Faruk Šehić (born 1970) is a Bosnian poet, novelist and short story writer.

He was born in Bihać and grew up in Bosanska Krupa. He studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant. After the war, he turned to literature. His first book was a collection of poems Pjesme u nastajanju (Acquired Poems, 2000). His short story collection Pod pritiskom (Under Pressure) was published in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize. The English translation of Under Pressure was published in May 2019 by Istros Books.^[1] His debut novel Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una, 2011), was translated into English in 2016 by Istros Books and into Italian in 2017 by E. Mujčić (Il mio fiume) for Mimesis, and also into Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Spanish, Macedonian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Hungarian languages. Quiet Flows the Una won the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the former Yugoslavia in 2011, and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013.^[2] His most recent poetry book is a collection of poetry entitled My Rivers (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014), for which he received the Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014, and Annual award from the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also received XXXI Premio Letterario Camaiore Francesco Belluomini (Premio Internazionale 2019) for selected poems "Ritorno alla natura" as a youngest laureate so far. In 2018, he published a collection of short stories, Clockwork Stories.

Šehić lives in Sarajevo, where he works as a columnist and journalist. He is a member of the Writers’ Association and the PEN Centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His books have been translated into 15 languages and published in 19 countries. In 2017, Šehić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.^[3]

Published works

Pjesme u Nastajanju (Acquired Poems), 2000
Hit depo (Hit Depot), 2003
Pod Pritiskom (Under Pressure), 2004
Transsarajevo 2006
Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina/Dodatne scene (Hit Depot, Under Pressure, Transsarajevo, Apocalypse from Recycle Bin/Additional Scenes), 2007/2018
Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una), 2011
Moje rijeke (My Rivers), 2014
Priče sa satnim mehanizmom (Clockwork Stories), 2018
Greta (Greta), 2021.

Works translated into English

Quiet Flows the Una (Istros Books, London, 2016)
Under Pressure (Istros Books, London, 2019)

References

^ "Under Pressure". istrosbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^ "Faruk Šehić | European Union Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
^ Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. Večernji List (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

External links

Official website
Author's page Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine at Istros Books' website (UK Publisher)

[1] "Under Pressure". istrosbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.

[2] "Faruk Šehić | European Union Prize for Literature". www.euprizeliterature.eu. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2016-01-29.

[3] Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear]. Večernji List (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

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