Hadžem Hajdarević was born on July 18th 1956 in Kruševo near Foča. The poet, fiction writer, publicist and editor has been educated in Sarajevo (Gazi-Husrefbeg’s religious high school and Faculty of Philosophy, Department of literature and south Slavic languages), where he also lives and works at the Language Institute as professional associate.

He is a member of Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, P.E.N. Center of BiH, member of the Executive Board of Cultural Community of Bosniaks “Preporod”, and the member of Congress Council of Bosniak intellectuals.
Along his regular activities in Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the year of 2001 Hadžem Hajdarević became the President of the Organizatoinal Committee of the International Literary Manifestation «Sarajevo Poetry Days».

His poetry has been translated into German, English, Polish, and Turkish language. He is listed in all recent antologies of Bosniak poetry as well as poetry antologies of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards: Trebinje Poetry Evenings; Publishing House - Svjetlost- in the year of 1982 for the book «Seobe Obala» («Migration of Coasts»); Skender Kulenović award for «Pjesme ponornice» (Poems of underground river), and Planjax award for his most recent book of poetry «Na sonetnim otocima» («On sonnet islands») in 2004.

Hadžem Hajdarević the author of numorous editions of Gymnasium and other secondary schools' readers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also edited a great number of volumes dedicated to domestic and foreign authors (monograph study on Behar by PhD professor Muhsin Rizvić / Publishing House Svjetlost, 1999; and literary works of Abdulah Sidran in five volumes / «Bosnia-Ars» - Tuzla, 2004).