Dževad Karahasan
| Dževad Karahasan | |
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| Born |
25 January 1953 Duvno, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | Bosnian, German |
| Ethnicity | Bosniak |
| Citizenship | Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Sarajevo University of Zagreb |
| Period | Postmodernism |
| Genre | Novels |
Dževad Karahasan (born 25 January 1953) is a Bosnian writer and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded with Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.
Karahasan was born in Duvno to a Bosniak family. He described his father as "religious communist" and mother as a devoted Muslim. He himself often spent time with Franciscan monks in the local monastery.
He studied literature and theatre at the university of Sarajevo. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb.
In 1993 Karahasan fled the war in Sarajevo, a city that plays a central role in his work. From 1986 to 1993, Karahaan was a lecturer in drama and drama theory and the dean of the Academy for Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo, since 1993 he has been a guest lecturer at various European universities, including Salzburg, Berlin and Göttingen.
Since 1993 Karahasan works as a dramatist for ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre. His plays have been performed in Austria (Vienna, Krems, Hallein, Eisenstadt, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt), Germany (Gera, Erfurt, Berlin, Leipzig), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Ukraine (Odessa), Czech Republic (Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno), Kosovo (Pristina), Poland (Szczecin), Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival) and USA (Washington DC).
In addition to his dramas and novel Karahasan published numerous essays in various European newspapers.
Karahasan has been awarded many prizes, including:
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