Mak Dizdar

Mehmedalija Dizdar, known as Mak Dizdar, was born on 17 October 1917 in Stolac, in Herzegovina, into a Muslim family. A secondary-school pupil in Sarajevo from 1936, he contributed to a journal edited by his elder brother, the writer Hamid Dizdar, and published that same year a first collection, which was censored. A supporter of the communists, he kept changing hiding places during the war. Editor-in-chief of a Sarajevo daily, head of publishing houses, a professional writer from 1952, he presided over the Union of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina until his death, in Sarajevo, on 14 July 1971.

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