Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882 – 30 December 1936) was a
Bosnian writer and dramatist. He was editor of ''Muslimanska svijest'' (), a
Bosnian-language newspaper supporting the
Young Turks
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political reform movement, and ''Novi Behar'', the 1920s revival of the Bosnian Muslim political magazine ''
Behar''.
Šahinović was born in either 1879 or 1882 in the hamlet
Hum near
Foča
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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, during
Ottoman rule over the country. He completed
gymnasium in
Sarajevo
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, then pursued a high education in
Zagreb
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and
Vienna
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. Although Šahinović died 30 December 1936, his year of death is sometimes mistakenly given as 1939.
References
19th-century births
1936 deaths
People from Foča
Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
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