Zlata Filipović

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Zlata Filipović (born December 3, 1980 ) is a Bosnian writer. She became known for her diary , Le journal de Zlata , which she wrote between 1991–1993 during the siege of Sarajevo and which became a bestseller in several countries.

In her diary called “Mimmy”, the 11 to 13 year old Zlata describes how she experienced the horrors of the Bosnian War in Sarajevo. The recordings begin shortly before her eleventh birthday and end with the family fleeing to Paris in 1995. It becomes clear how the war is increasingly affecting everyday life in the city. The entry of August 5, 1992 reads: “When there is war, you can't keep in touch with people, except with your neighbors. The immediate neighborhood is our life now. Everything happens within this circle, only you know that. Everything else is far away. ”Zlata describes the day on which the war began as“ the day when time stood still ”. She and her parents had little food, water and electricity, and lived in poverty and fear.

Like Anne Frank's diary, this diary depicts the horror of war from the perspective of a young person, which prompted some news agencies and media to refer to Zlata Filipović as the "Anne Frank of Sarajevo".

Her family first fled to Paris. Filipović later studied at the University of Oxford and graduated with a BA in Human Sciences. Today she lives in Dublin .

Filipović wrote the foreword to The Freedom Writers Diary in 1999 and translated Vidosav Stevanovic's book Milosevic: The People's Tyrant into English in 2004 . She is also co-editor of a collection of wartime eyewitness accounts written by teenagers between 1914 and 2004, entitled Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries from World War I to Iraq (2006).

literature

  • Zlata Filipović: I am a girl from Sarajevo , translation from the French by Sabine Schwenk, 2nd edition, 191 pages, numerous illustrations, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-404-61320-1 (French original title: Le journal de Zlata , Loisirs, Paris 1993, ISBN)
  • Zlata Filipović, translation into English: Vidosav Stevanovic, Milosevic: the people's tyrant , edited by Trude Johansson, XVI, 256 pages, IB Tauris, London 2004, ISBN 1-86064-842-8 (original title: Milošević, jedan epitaf )
  • Zlata Filipović, foreword, in: Erin Gruwell; Freedom Writers: Freedom Writers. How a young teacher and 150 young people at risk have changed themselves and their environment through writing , [based on the real story, the Paramount Pictures film with Oscar winner Hilary Swank], translation by Kerstin Winter. Autorhaus Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86671-017-7 (Original edition: Erin Gruwell; Freedom Writers: The Freedom Writers diary. How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them. Foreword by Zlata Filipovic. Doubleday, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0-385-49422-9 )
  • Zlata Filipović and Melanie Challenger, editors: Stolen voices: young people's war diaries, from World War I to Iraq . Foreword by Olara A. Otunnu. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-303871-9 (online version); previously Stolen Voices , edited by Melanie Challenger with an introduction by Zlata Filipovic, Frances Lincoln, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-84507-493-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zlata Filipović, Zlata's Diary. A Child's Life in Sarajevo , with a new afterword by Zlata Filipović. With an introduction by Janine di Giovanni, translated by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, Penguin Books, London 1994, ISBN 0-14-024009-8 , pp. 69-70.
personal data
SURNAME Filipović, Zlata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian diary writer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1980