Faruk Sehic is Bosnia's star writer. At the age of 22 he voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. 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 collection of short stories ' Under Pressure' (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. He has published poetry and the novella 'Greta' (2020). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

'Sehic's fine eye for detail serves to aestheticize atrocity without ever fetishizing it . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breath-taking" LA Review of Books; "Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, 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 Kassabova, The Guardian

Faruk Sehic is Bosnia's star writer. At the age of 22 he voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. 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 collection of short stories ' Under Pressure' (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. He has published poetry and the novella 'Greta' (2020). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

'Sehic's fine eye for detail serves to aestheticize atrocity without ever fetishizing it . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breath-taking" LA Review of Books; "Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, 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 Kassabova, The Guardian

Faruk Sehic is Bosnia's star writer. At the age of 22 he voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. 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 collection of short stories ' Under Pressure' (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel 'Quiet Flows the Una' (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Mesa Selimovic prize for the best novel published in the region in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. He has published poetry and the novella 'Greta' (2020). Sehic lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.

'Sehic's fine eye for detail serves to aestheticize atrocity without ever fetishizing it . . Brilliant, insightful, poetic, and breath-taking" LA Review of Books; "Through his exploration of war and peace, innocence and grief, 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 Kassabova, The Guardian