Background
Hamid Dizdar was born to a Muslim Bosniak family in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the son of Muharem (died 1923) and Nezira (née Babović. 1881–1945).
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Hamid Dizdar
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Hamid was the oldest of three children. Dizdar worked as a clerk in his hometown Stolac before becoming an editor in Sarajevo for the newspapers "Slobodna riječ", "Jugoslavenska pošta", "Pravda", and "Gajret". After the Second World War, Dizdar became the Director of the Archives of the City of Sarajevo.
He edited the magazines "Odjek", "Vidik" and "Život".
He began writing poetry while working as a social writer, and appeared in Knjiga drugova (Book of Comrades) in 1929.
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Bosnian