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Faruk Sehic c_Zoran Kanlic
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Faruk Šehić (born in 1970 in Bihać, now in Bosnia-Herzegovina) was forced to interrupt his study of veterinary medicine in Zagreb on the outbreak of the war in 1992 and joined the army at the age of 22. After the war he studied Literature and has been publishing his work since 1998.
His book of poems Hit depot was published in 2003 and was a bestseller in Bosnia-Herzegovina, helping him to the cult status he enjoys today. This book delineates what has become a central subject in his work, life after the war on the margins of society. His poems express a local, but also global feeling towards the capitalist system, mingled with the desperate post-war existence and remnants of a society in Sarajevo and Bosnia, which he sees as having ‘died off’. His work has been translated in to several languages, including English, German, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Hungarian. As well as poetry and prose, Šehić writes essays and reviews literature and art. He is a member of the Writers’ Union and the PEN Centre in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He now lives in Sarajevo where he works as a columnist and journalist for the political magazine BH Dani.
Publications (a selection):
Moje rijeke. Buybook. 2014
Knjiga o Uni. 2011
Pod pritiskom (Under Pressure). 2004
Prizes (a selection):
Competition of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014
Risto Ratković Award 2014
European Union Prize for Literature 2013
Meša Selimović Prize 2011
Zoro Verlag Prize 2004