Faruk Sehic

Background

He was born in Bihać and grew up in Bosanska Krupa.

Education

He studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant.

Career

After the war, he turned to literature. His first book was a collection of poems Pjesme u nastajanju (Acquired Poems, 2000). Šehić lives in Sarajevo where he works as a columnist and journalist.

His books have been translated into English, German, Bulgarian and Macedonian.

Achievements

• His short story collection Pod pritiskom (Under Pressure, 2004) won the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel Knjiga o Uni (The Book of Una, 2011) won the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the former Yugoslavia and the European Union Prize for Literature.