Faruk Šehić is a poet and a war veteran. If that sounds romantic it’s not meant to – it’s true. During the Balkans war of the early 1990s, the poet – aged twenty-two at t
The title of Faruk Šehić’s novel is a reference to the Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don. Like the Sholokhov, Šehić’s book is about fratricid
Susan Curtis-Kojakovic: Can you tell me how you came from studying veterinary medicine to writing fiction? Was that a long journey? Faruk Šehić: When the war started in Bosnia, i
The Monster from the Juice Warehouse It was so long ago and I was so small that I find it hard to believe that it all really happened. I learned to walk and talk early and plunged
A meditation on the beauty of nature and the cruelty of war Bosnian Author Faruk Šehić on his prize-winning novel Quiet Flows the Una published by Istros Books, in conversation w
