Collection: Mak Dizdar

Mehmed Alija 'Mak' Dizdar (1917-1971), considered one of the greatest Yugoslav writers, was born in Stolac, southern Bosnia. After the war, in which he was a partisan in Tito's army, he became a prominent figure in Bosnian cultural life, working as a newspaper editor, as a book publisher and, finally, as President of the Writers’ Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He died in Sarajevo.