Semezdin Mehmedinović

Semezdin Mehmedinović is a poet, writer, and magazine editor. He was born in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1960, and was educated at the University of Sarajevo. In 1994, with five other Bosnian writers, he received the Hellman-Hammet Award from PEN for persistence in preserving democracy in the midst of war. Mehmedinović arrived in the United States in 1996 as a political refugee and settled in Alexandria, Virginia. His books include Sarajevo Blues (1998), Nine Alexandrias (2003), and the autobiographical novel My Heart (2021). He currently lives in Sarajevo.