Vehid Gunić (

Kozarac Kozarac ( sr-cyrl, Козарац, ) is a town in north-western Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, located near the city of Prijedor. It is located west of Banja Luka. Kozarac is also famous because of the Kozara National Park. Kozarac ...

, 9 February 1941 –

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

, 29 April 2017) was a Bosnian

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

. He worked for many years as a journalist, presenter and editor for Radio Television Sarajevo, later Radio Television Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has so far published some twenty books of historical studies, travel writings, interviews, documentary prose, and several books of sevdalinka with commentary. His titles include: 'Kozarac as it once was', 'Notes on the universality of ignoramuses', 'Bosnia of my birth, we have gone far away', 'The beauty of returning to Bosnia', 'Sevdalinka about cities', 'Meraklije', 'Fear of smoking', 'Sarajevo's screams', and others. His books have been published in Norway, Switzerland, Australia as well as Bosnia. Vehid Gunić was for years among the most popular Bosnian journalists. Until the outbreak of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, he edited and presented the then Sarajevo Television series "Meraklije', which was one of the most popular programmes in the former Yugoslavia, with among the highest viewer ratings. In the latest programmes in this series, Gunic rescued from oblivion and preserved for posterity numerous Bosnian folk songs, sevdalinka.

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1941 births 2017 deaths Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists People from Prijedor {{europe-journalist-stub