Faruk Šehić

Faruk Šehić (born 1970) is a Bosnian poet, novelist and short story writer.

He studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant.

His short story collection Pod pritiskom (Under Pressure) was published in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize.

[1] His debut novel Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una, 2011), was translated into English in 2016 by Istros Books and into Italian in 2017 by E. Mujčić (Il mio fiume) for Mimesis, and also into Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Spanish, Macedonian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Hungarian languages.

In 2017, Šehić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.