Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić

Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić (6 December 1932 – 22 September 1995) was a Bosnian children's author and poet.

Her first children's book, Maskenbal u šumi ("Costume Ball in the Woods"), was published in 1962.

Kapidžić-Hadžić was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; then Yugoslavia on 6 December 1932, although some sources give her date of birth as 6 November 1931.

As a little girl she had leg surgery and wore a cast, rendering her bedridden.

[1] She attended elementary and high school in Banja Luka and moved to Belgrade to study at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy, where she earned her academic degree.