Zlatko Topčić
| Zlatko Topčić | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 April 1955 Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Pen name | Gold Taucher |
| Occupation | Writer and screenwriter |
| Notable awards |
Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Award 1999 Remake Annual Award of Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013 Dagmar PEN Austrian Center Award 2009 I Do Not Like Mondays The Award of the Ministry of Culture and Sport 2000 Time Out |
| Spouse | Amela Topčić (m. 1996) |
| Children | Kerim Topčić |
Zlatko Topčić (born 30 April 1955) is an award-winning Bosnian writer and screenwriter known for his screenplays, dramas and novels. He wrote the screenplays for the movies Remake and The Abandoned.
Topčić was born to a Bosniak family in Sarajevo on 30 April 1955. His father, Zaim Topčić (1920–1990), was also a writer. His mother is a member of the Selimić family, her grandfather was Zaim Bey Selimić, who was the owner of the Kravice waterfalls. He graduated from Law School of the University of Sarajevo.
He initially wrote crime novels and short stories, whose circulation reached one hundred thousand copies, under the pseudonym Gold Taucher, which were published in the region when he was 17 years old, and which have sold over ten million copies.
Zlatko Topčić was a founder, chief editor of the newspaper Slovo and producer of the panorama of the Bosnian war stories in English Forgotten Country (1997) and an anthology of members of Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Best Of (2000). He is one of the founders of Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from 1993 to 2001 the first General Secretary. From 2001 to 2011 he was director and artistic director of the Chamber Theatre 55, which is statistically the most successful period in the history of theater.
During that period, Chamber Theatre 55 was the most successful theater in Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the most successful in the region, and with their performances, he has appeared in many theaters around the world. He was a selector of the International Theatre Festival MESS in 2012 and a member of several juries, among others, in 2013 and 2014 for the Award BZK "Preporod" for best play. From 2013 to 2016 he was general director of TVSA. In 2016 he comes to the position of director of the Library of Sarajevo. He is a member of the Commission for free Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is president of the Arts Council of the Sarajevo National Theatre since 2015.
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