Background
He was born in Vitina, Ljubuški municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from where he moved in 1920 to Fojnica.
He was born in Vitina, Ljubuški municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from where he moved in 1920 to Fojnica.
After finishing primary school in Fojnica, he started grammar school in Sarajevo, and finished it in 1936.
There he spent most of his youth and always came back regardless of all the other places he went to This is when his literary and political work started. In those ages he managed to publish few short stories, and to get arrested for participating in youth strikes.
In 1937 he started studying pedagogy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
His literary works started to appear in many papers, but also his political engagement rose. Even before he turned 30 the World World War II started.
Foreign a year he worked in Fojnica and Sarajevo as illegal cooperator, thus in spring of 1942, one day before joining the partisan army he was arrested in Sarajevo and taken to camp Jasenovac in Croatia, where he was executed shortly afterwards.
