Zija Dizdarević
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Zija Dizdarević (b. 18. February 1916, Vitina, near Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina - spring 1942, camp Jasenovac, Croatia) is Bosnian prose writer.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in one small village in Bosnia and Herzegovina from where he moved in 1920 to Fojnica. There he spent most of his youth and alwaxs came back regardelss of all the other places he went to. After finishing primary school in Fojnica, he started grammar school in Sarajevo, and finshed it in 1936. This is when his literary, but and political work started.[1] In those ages he menaged to publish few short stories, and to get arrested for participating in youth strikes. In 1937 he started studying pedagogy in Belgrade, which then was a capital of the whole region, ie. Yugoslavia. His literar works started to appear in many papers, but also his political enganement rose. Even before he turned 30 the Second World War started. For a year he worked In Fojnica and Sarajevo as illegal cooperator, thus in spring of 1942, one day before joining the partisan army he was arrested in Sarajevo and taken to the camp in Jasenovac. Very soon he was executed. [1]
[edit] Works
Today Dizdarević is very famous and every school book for primary or secundary school has one of his stories. The stories were if not the social critique, then the relistic description of everyday life.
He used authentic Bosnian speech and dialect, spoken by uneducated common situations in their common lives, who were the main protagonists of his works.
His most famous story is "Majka" (mother) where he describes the life of a common women, her devotion to her family, especially her children. The topic of the story is a death of one of her children suddenly hit by the car. But the story explains the whole life of a women and the childhood of a narrator (probuably the writer himslef, but evident is the usage of [[Ich form]]).[1]
[edit] List of works
All Dizdarević's works were published after his death. This is the list of titles and their first editions. List is in Bosnian, but possible translations into English are also given. There is no record that any of his works are translated into English until today.
- Pripovijetke (Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1948), Short Stories
- Prosanjane jeseni (Džepna knjiga, Sarajevo, 1959), The Autmuns That were Dreamt Away
- Sabrana djela (Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1968), Collected Works
- Blago u duvaru (Zadrugar, Sarajevo, 1983), Tresure in the Wall
