Zulmir Bečević, (born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish-Bosnian author and academic. In 1992 he and his family fled from the

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in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Sweden, an event that laid the foundation for his semi-biographical debut novel ''Resan som började med ett slut''. The novel was published in 2006, and received positive reviews. His second novel, ''Svenhammeds journaler'', was published in 2009; it was nominated for the

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in the Children and Young Adults category. A stage version of the book was produced at Folkteatern in Gävleborg in 2011. Bečević's third novel, ''Avblattefieringsprocessen'', is a satire on the growing xenophobia in Swedish society. It was published in 2014. When Bečević came to Sweden as a 10-year-old with his family, they moved to Falkenberg where Bečević grew up and went to school. He has a Master's degree in political science from

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, and a PhD in child studies from Linköping University. He is a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Work at

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