Faruk Šehić

*** [Redžo Begić je poginuo]

Poems

• 1 *** [Supermen je u penziji] | Translations: de
• 2 prolazeći pored Markala na trenutak zastah | Translations: de
• 3 kad sam prvi put vidio komad ljudske lobanje | Translations: de
• 4 Una | Translations: de
• 5 ja nisam čovjek iz Sarajeva | Translations: de
• 6 sastavljam inventar samoće
• 7 dok sam čekao da sunce zađe za zgradu | Translations: de
• 8 *** [Redžo Begić je poginuo] | Translations: de
• 9 jesen, iluzija | Translations: de
• 10 što sam stariji sve više vjerujem u horoskop | Translations: de
• 11 Emigrantski soul | Translations: deen

Language: bosnian

Translations: german (*** [Redžo Begić fiel])

*** [Redžo Begić je poginuo]

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Redžo Begić je poginuo
na Golom brdu
zrno mu je prošlo
uzduž kroz prsa
na usta mu je izlazila krv
umjesto toplog zraka
lice mu je postajalo
bijelo i žuto
sve je trajalo par sekundi
modrina neba
nakupljala mu se u usnama.

Translations:

Language: german

*** [Redžo Begić fiel]

***

Redžo Begić fiel
auf dem Golo brdo
das Geschoss ging
senkrecht durch seine Brust
aus dem Mund lief ihm Blut
anstatt warmer Luft
sein Gesicht wurde
weiß und gelb
das alles dauerte ein paar Sekunden
das Blau des Himmels
sammelte sich in seinen Lippen

Faruk Šehić

photo © Zoran Kanlic

* 14.04.1970, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
lives in: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faruk Šehić was born in 1970 in Bihać, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old 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 create his own literary works. 

His second book ‘Hit depot’ (2003) was the absolutely literary bestseller in Bosnia despite that was a poetry book. His poems are about local (and global) feeling of capitalistic way of life mixed with desperate postwar life in ruins, remains of dead society in Sarajevo and Bosnia.

photo © Zoran Kanlic

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 whole 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) 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) for whom he received Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014. His books are translated into french, italian, german, english, bulgarian, macedonian, polish, slovenian and hungarian language. Šehić lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist in respected political magazine ‘BH Dani’.

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