Upon the news of the death of academician Dževad Karahasan, one of the most important writers of contemporary Bosniak and Bosnia-Herzegovina literature, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, president of the Bosniak cultural community “Preporod” Sanjin Kodric sent a letter of condolence to Dževad Karahasan’s wife Dragana Tomašević and other family members.
“Dževad Karahasan was one of the most significant writers of contemporary Bosnian and Bosnian literature, i.e. a writer who strongly marked our literature of his time, giving it his clear and recognizable stamp. And more than that, Dževad Karahasan was also a great European and world writer, and not only for what is the international reception of his literary work, but primarily for what were his literary standards and his literary achievements – his literary world and his place in the world of literature. For those of us who knew him personally, he was also a friend and always an open and stimulating interlocutor,” Kodric wrote.
As he stated, Academician Karahasan also worked closely with the Bosnian cultural community “Revival”, which planned to publish a new edition and an English translation of the collection Reports from dark vilayet, the book that Karahasan described in the last letter he sent to the Bosniak culture community “Revival” as his “certainly the most personal book, actually the book that most resembles me”.
