Alija Isakovic

Background

Isaković was born to a Bosniak family in Stolac in January 1932, while modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Education

Isaković studied Slavic languages and literature and was graduate of the University of Sarajevo. He attended schools in his native Stolac, as well as Zagreb, Crikvenica, Pančevo, Belgrade, and Sarajevo.

Career

He wrote the screenplay for a 1983 film version of the Bosniak folk ballad Hasanaginica. The film"s script was turned into a play, directed by Sulejman Kupusović, that premiered in 1988. In 1972, he released an anthology of Bosniak literature called Biserje (Pearls).

Isaković"s Pearls, it was said, was a pioneering project in establishing the delicate ethnic Bosniak literature.

During the of the 1990s, Isaković was one of the speakers at the First Assembly of Bosniaks (Prvi Bošnjački sabor), one of the most important events in modern political history of Bosniaks, held in the besieged city of Sarajevo between 27–28 September 1993. An elementary school bearing Isaković"s name has been opened in Bosnia.

Works

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  • BISERJE : ANTOLOGIJA MUSLIMANSKE KNJIZEVNOSTI