Adisa Bašić

Adisa Bašić was born in 1979 in Sarajevo. She has a degree in Comparative Literature, and an MA in Human Rights and Democracy. She spent a year in Germany on a DAAD grant studying German and Media at Phlipps University in Marburg. She has travelled widely and has participated in a number of literary encounters in Bosnia and abroad. In 2003 she spent four months travelling in the USA together with other young writers from conflict‐ridden countries and has given readings in many venues from San Francisco to Boston. She works as a journalist in the culture section of Slobodna Bosna weekly, the largest circulation Bosnian daily, where she has a literary column. She has published two poetry collections, Hava’s Sentences (1999) and Trauma Market (2004). Her poetry and literary criticism has been published in leading magazines in the region, including Sarajevske sveske, Novi pogledi and Treci trg. Her story “To Survive Hitchhiking” was awarded at UNESCO competition for best short stories of young writers from South‐Eastern Europe, while her second book Trauma market was selected for best poetry collection at International Publisher's Encounters “Voyage to the Center of Europe” in Pazin, Croatia, awarded with a one‐month fellowship in Graz, Austria.

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