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Author · Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zaim Topčić

Died in 1990

Zaim Topčić was born on 28 February 1920 in Glamoč into a Bosniak family and lived mostly in Sarajevo. A graduate of the faculty of economics in Belgrade, he joined the partisans as early as 1941; a communist, he was interned in 1943 in the Jasenovac camp, then exchanged. After the war, he was an editor at Radio Sarajevo and general secretary of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from which he twice received the annual prize. A member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, he died in Sarajevo on 15 July 1990.

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