Dževad Karahasan

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Dževad Karahasan
Duvno, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Died19 May 2023(2023-05-19) (aged 70)
Graz, Austria
OccupationNovelist
LanguageBosnian, German
CitizenshipBosnia and Herzegovina / Austria
Alma materUniversity of Sarajevo
University of Zagreb
PeriodPostmodernism
GenreNovels

Dževad Karahasan (25 January 1953 – 19 May 2023) was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher.[1][2] Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.

In 2020, the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Goethe Prize.[3][4]

Early life

Karahasan was born in

Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb.[6]

Career

From 1986 to 1993, Karahasan was a lecturer in drama and drama theory and the dean of the Academy for Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo. In 1993, during the Siege of Sarajevo, he left the city – which plays a central role in many of his works – to become a guest lecturer at various European universities, including those in Salzburg, Berlin and Göttingen.

Death

Karahasan died on 19 May 2023, at the age of 70.[7]

Dževad Karahasan grave

Works

Theatre

Since 1993 Karahasan worked 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 (Odesa), Czech Republic (Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno), Kosovo (Pristina), Poland (Szczecin), Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival) and USA (Washington DC).

Literature and essays

In addition to his dramas and novel Karahasan published numerous essays in various European newspapers.

Prizes

Publications

Novels and essays

Theatre

Radiodrama

  • "AL-Mukaffa" ORF Vienna 1994
  • "The Delighted Angel" ORF Vienna 1995

Audio CDs

  • "Al-Mukaffa" ARBOS 1996
  • "The Singing of The Fools of Europe" ORF ARBOS 1998
  • "UROBOS : Project Time" Singapore Arts Festival 2001
  • "Banquet" Tonstudio Weikert ARBOS 2006

References

  1. ^ "Dzevad Karahasan erhält Goethe-Preis – Mannheimer Morgen". www.morgenweb.de (in German). 26 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. ^ V, F. "U Šangaju objavljen kineski prijevod remek-djela Dževada Karahasana". Radio Sarajevo. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b Wenzel, Tobias (27 August 2020). "Goethepreis für Dževad Karahasan – "Wenn ich unter Freunden sein will, muss ich zum Friedhof"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Dževad Karahasan: "Vereinfachungen kann ich mir nicht leisten"". Deutsche Welle (in German). 12 May 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  5. ^ Bach, Aya; Rose, Jasmina (28 August 2012). "Goetheova medalja za bosanskog graditelja mostova". Deutsche Welle (in Croatian). Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  6. ISBN 978-963-9241-90-9
    – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Preminuo istaknuti bh. književnik Dževad Karahasan". Klix.ba. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d Kulturserver Graz: Dževad Karahasan
  9. ^ "Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch – Ausschreibungsbedingungen". Archived from the original on 11 July 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  10. ^ "European Book Prize". Leipziger Buchmesse. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ List, Jutarnji (8 May 2020). "Jutarnji list – NAJPRESTIŽNIJE NJEMAČKO KNJIŽEVNO PRIZNANJE Dževad Karahasan dobitnik je ovogodišnje Goetheove nagrade, njeni su laureati bili i Freud, Hesse, Mann..." Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 June 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ "Theater zum Fühlen und Begreifen > Kleine Zeitung". Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
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