text: Faruk Šehić
  
  Faruk Šehić (born 1970) is a Bosnian poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Bihać and grew up in Bosanska Krupa. He studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak of the Bosnian war in which he was an active combatant. After the war, he turned to literature. His first book was a collection of poems Pjesme u nastajanju (Acquired Poems, 2000). His short story collection Pod pritiskom (Under Pressure) was published in 2004 and won the Zoro Verlag Prize. The English translation of Under Pressure was published in May 2019 by Istros Books. 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, Spanish, Macedonian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian and Hungarian language. Quiet Flows the Una won the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the former Yugoslavia in 2011, and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent poetry book is a collection of poetry entitled ‘My Rivers’ (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014) for whom he received Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014, and Annual award from Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
  He also receive XXXI Premio Letterario Camaiore Francesco Belluomini (Premio Internazionale 2019) for selected poems "Ritorno alla natura" as a youngest laureate so far. In 2018 he published short stories collection "Clockwork Stories". Šehić lives in Sarajevo, where he works as a columnist and journalist. He is a member of the Writers’ Association and the PEN Centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His books have been translated into 14 languages and published in 18 countries. In 2017, Šehić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
  
  Published Works 
   Pjesme u Nastajanju (Acquired Poems), 2000
   Hit depo (Hit Depot), 2003
   Pod Pritiskom (Under Pressure), 2004
   Transsarajevo 2006
   Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina/Dodatne scene (Hit Depot, Under Pressure, Transsarajevo, Apocalypse from Recycle Bin/Additional Scenes), 2007/2018
   Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una), 2011
   Moje rijeke (My Rivers), 2014
   Priče sa satnim mehanizmom (Clockwork Stories), 2018
  
  Works Translated into English 
   Quiet Flows the Una (Istros Books, London, 2016)
   Under Pressure (Istros Books, London, 2019)
  
  References
  
  External links 
   Author's page at Istros Books' website (UK Publisher)
  
   https://www.facebook.com/faruksehic70/
  Category:1970 births
  Category:Living people
  Category:Bosniak writers
  Category:Bosniak poets
  Category:Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
  Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina poets
  Category:People from Bihać
  Category:Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language