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Editor’s Welcome
Islands, where he serves as co-editor of
Vencil
, a Faroese
literary magazine. The six poems in this issue are excerpted
from
Eg eri næstur
(I Am Next, 2013).
Faruk Šehić
(born in Bihać, former Yugoslavia, 1970)
studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb until the outbreak
of war in 1992. 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 be a writer. 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 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) – excerpted here – received
the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia
in 2011 and 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.
Quiet Flows the Una
is just out from Istros Books.