Dževad Karahasan, Bosnian writer, professor and academic, died at the age of 70, German media reported.
Karahasan fought a battle with a serious illness for two years, which, unfortunately, he lost today.
He is one of the most important European authors. Many colleagues and friends are saying goodbye to Karahasan on social networks.
Dževad Karahasan was born in 1953 in Duvno. He is the author of numerous books, essays, plays… The characteristics of Karahasan’s work are modernist and innovative narrative techniques that mix genre characteristics, essayization and dramatization of prose, as well as the richness of language.
For his work, Karahasan has been awarded numerous awards, one of the most significant being the Goethe Prize for Literature, which is named after the most versatile German writer and thinker, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 found him in the position of professor, later dean of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. He taught at several European universities as a visiting professor.
He wrote plays, novels, short stories, essays, history and criticism of the theater and participated as a theater director.
