Faruk Šehić (born 1970) is a Bosnian poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in

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and grew up in

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. He studied veterinary medicine in

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until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant. After the war, he turned to literature. His first book was a collection of poems ''Pjesme u nastajanju'' (''Acquired Poems'', 2000). His short story collection ''Pod pritiskom'' (''Under Pressure'') was published in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize. The English translation of ''Under Pressure'' was published in May 2019 by

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. His

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''Knjiga o Uni'' (''Quiet Flows the Una'', 2011), was translated into English in 2016 by

and into Italian in 2017 by E. Mujčić (''Il mio fiume'') for Mimesis, and also into Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Spanish, Macedonian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Hungarian language. ''Quiet Flows the Una'' won the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the

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in 2011, and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent poetry book is a collection of poetry entitled ‘My Rivers’ (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014) for whom he received Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014, and Annual award from Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also received XXXI Premio Letterario Camaiore Francesco Belluomini (Premio Internazionale 2019) for selected poems "Ritorno alla natura" as a youngest laureate so far. In 2018, he published short stories collection "Clockwork Stories". Šehić lives in

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, where he works as a columnist and journalist. He is a member of the Writers’ Association and the PEN Centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His books have been translated into 15 languages and published in 19 countries. In 2017, Šehić has signed the

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of the

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, Bosniaks and

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Published works

* ''Pjesme u Nastajanju'' (Acquired Poems), 2000 * ''Hit depo'' (Hit Depot), 2003 * ''Pod Pritiskom'' (Under Pressure), 2004 * ''Transsarajevo'' 2006 * ''Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina/Dodatne scene'' (Hit Depot, Under Pressure, Transsarajevo, Apocalypse from Recycle Bin/Additional Scenes), 2007/2018 * ''Knjiga o Uni'' (Quiet Flows the Una), 2011 * ''Moje rijeke'' (My Rivers), 2014 * ''Priče sa satnim mehanizmom'' (Clockwork Stories), 2018 * ''Greta'' (Greta), 2021.

Works Translated into English

*
Quiet Flows the Una
' (Istros Books, London, 2016) *
Under Pressure
' (Istros Books, London, 2019)

References

External links

Author's page
at Istros Books' website (UK Publisher) * https://www.facebook.com/faruksehic70/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Sehic, Faruk 1970 births Living people Bosniak writers Bosniak poets Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina writers Bosnia and Herzegovina poets People from Bihać Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language