Dževad Karahasan

[1][2] Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.

[3][4] Karahasan was born in Duvno (present-day Tomislavgrad) into an ethnic Bosniak family.

In 1993, during the Siege of Sarajevo, he left the city – which plays a central role in many of his works – to become a guest lecturer at various European universities, including those in Salzburg, Berlin and Göttingen.

His plays have been performed in Austria (Vienna, Krems, Hallein, Eisenstadt, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt), Germany (Gera, Erfurt, Berlin, Leipzig), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Ukraine (Odesa), Czech Republic (Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno), Kosovo (Pristina), Poland (Szczecin), Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival) and USA (Washington DC).

In addition to his dramas and novel Karahasan published numerous essays in various European newspapers.