Winner of the European Union Przie for Literature
Until the outbreak of war in 1992, Faruk Šehić studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works. Literary critics have hailed Šehić 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 debut novel Quiet Flows the Una (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in the region, and also the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent book is a collection of poetry entitled My Rivers (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014). Šehić lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist.
"Sehic's compressed, hypnotic intensity is closest to Tim O'Brien's
Vietnam war novel The Things They Carried. Quiet Flows the Una
brands the reader with the same brilliant heat." --Guardian
"Quiet Flows the Una is heartfelt, important and rich in the
ambivalence as well as insights an insider brings in explaining the
horrors of war." --Irish Times
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