Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić (born 11 November 1960) is a Bosnian Gurbeti Romani journalist, broadcaster, writer, translator, linguistic researcher and teacher, currently residing in Canada.
She was a popular television and radio broadcaster in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later went on to become a writer, publishing children's books, poetry, and memoirs.
[1] In the 1990s, following her emigration to Canada, she began teaching for the Toronto District School Board, while writing fiction and poetry.
She has published three collections of Romani folktales and folklore, several dictionaries of the Gurbeti dialect, a biography of her father, and an autobiography.
[3][4] In 2014 to 2020, she was appointed to a committee of experts to advise the Council of Europe on the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.