Faruk Šehić
Faruk Šehić (born April 14, 1970 in Bihać , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a writer and journalist. His literary work includes poetry, prose and essays. In 2013 he received the European Union Literature Prize for his novel Knjiga o Uni . Šehić lives in Sarajevo .
life and work
Faruk Šehić was born on April 14, 1970 in Bihać and grew up in Bosanska Krupa .
Until 1992 he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb . Then he joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and fought in the Bosnian War . In 1997 he began studying literature in Sarajevo and has been writing literary texts since 1998, mainly poetry and prose.
He made his debut in 2000 with the volume of poetry Pjesme u nastajanju (in German "Poems in the making"). His short prose appeared in book form in 2004 for the first time in the volume Pod pritiskom (in German "Unter Druck").
For his highly acclaimed debut novel Knjiga o Uni (in German "Book about the Una") from 2011, Šehić received the 2013 European Union Literature Prize. The novel is about the former soldier Mustafa Huzar, who tries to overcome the trauma of the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995. In narrative terms, the novel spans the main character's childhood before the war, her experiences on the battlefields during the war, and attempts to lead a normal life in a city that was destroyed afterwards. The river Una appears mythical and dreamlike in the novel. The protagonist had a happy childhood on the banks of the Una. The river thus forms a counterbalance to the “dirty and repulsive” memories of the war and the desolation after its end. What saves the former soldier Mustafa Huzar is writing. The German translation of the novel Knjiga o Uni is not yet available (as of 1/2020).
In the volume of poetry Moje rijeke (in German “My Rivers”) from 2014, Šehić dedicates a cycle of poems to the Spree and Berlin in addition to the Loire and Drina .
In autumn 2017 the author was a scholarship holder at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and sung about the city in his lyric text Auslenderska berlinologija (in German “Ausländer-Berlinologie”), which he subtitled as “Reportage song”.
Šehić's work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Dutch, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Polish and Macedonian. The author is a member of the Writers' Union and the PEN Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Šehić lives as a freelance writer and journalist in Sarajevo. His journalistic work appears mainly in the news magazine BH Dani and the daily newspaper Oslobođenje from Sarajevo.
Works
In the original language
- Pjesme u nastajanju , Poetry, Omnibus, Sarajevo, 2000, ISBN 9958-9487-7-X
- Hit depo , Lyrik, Buybook, Sarajevo, 2003, ISBN 9958-630-17-6
- Pod pritiskom , short stories, Zoro, Sarajevo, Zagreb, 2004, ISBN 9958-589-06-0 ; 953-6296-32-2
- Transsarajevo , poetry, Durieux, Zagreb, 2006, ISBN 953-188-238-X
- Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina , Buybook, Sarajevo, 2008, ISBN 978-9958-30-017-2
- Knjiga o Uni , Roman, Buybook, Sarajevo, 2011, ISBN 978-9958-30-132-2
- Moje rijeke , Poetry, Buybook, Sarajevo, 2014, ISBN 9789958302138
- Priče sa satnim mehanizmom. (Predapokaliptični sevdah) , short prose, Buybook, Sarajevo, 2018, ISBN 978-9958-30-395-1
German translations
- Badges made of meat , poetry, bilingual selection, Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3902113870
- Under pressure , narration, in: Stojić, Hana (ed.): New literature from Bosnia and Herzegovina , Sarajevski otvoreni centar, Sarajevo, 2011, pp. 165–171, ISBN 978-9958-9959-2-7
- Blind spots , narrative, Goethe-Institut, 2014
literature
- Before Beganović: Trauma of the warrior , in: Borissova, Natalija, Susi Frank and Andreas Kraft (eds.): Between apocalypse and everyday life. War narratives of the 20th and 21st centuries , Transcript, Bielefeld, 2009, pp. 201–220, ISBN 978-3-8394-1045-5
Honors
- Prize of the Zagreb publishing house Zoro for the short story book Pod pritiskom , 2003
- Prize of the Belgrade Poetry Festival Trgni se! Poezija! , 2008
- Meša Selimović Prize for the novel Knjiga o Uni , 2011
- European Union Literature Prize for the novel Knjiga o Uni , 2013
Web links
- Literature by Faruk Šehić in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's website Faruk Šehić at Buybook publisher, Sarajevo
- Interview with Faruk Šehić in the program Wörtlich auf Orange 94.0, Free Radio in Vienna, 23 August 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emigrantski soul. In: lyrikline.org. 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 (Bosnian, German).
- ↑ Faruk Šehić. In: Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. November 2017, accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ^ Faruk Šehić, jedna pjesma. Portal for literature and culture Strane, July 4, 2018, accessed January 17, 2020 (Bosnian).
- ↑ Faruk Šehić. In: Traduki, translations from, to and in Southeast Europe. February 2012, accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Faruk Šehić osvojio Beograd. In: booksa.hr. September 16, 2008, accessed January 13, 2020 (Croatian).
- ↑ Šehiću nagrada Meša Selimović. In: SEEcult.org. September 10, 2012, accessed January 13, 2020 (Serbian).
- ^ European Union Prize for Literature. 2013, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Šehić, Faruk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bihać , Yugoslavia |