About the Author

Until the outbreak of war in 1992, Faruk Sehic studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works. Literary critics have hailed Sehic as the leader of the `mangled generation' of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region, and also the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent book is a collection of poetry entitled `My Rivers' (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

Reviews

'Sehic has composed a humbling meditation on an existential conundrum that is central to collective and private trauma, but also to more ordinary human experience: how to keep the inner self whole in a world that will assault it in unimaginable ways.' Kapka Kassaova, The Guardian (on Quiet Flows the Una); "When I discovered Faruk Sehic, I didn't just see war in his work, I saw life in that war." Nikola Madzirov, poet; "It's been a long while since Bosnian literature has seen such an interesting and fine writer such as Faruk Sehic." Enver Kazaz, editor and critic