Adisa Bašić
/Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1979
Adisa Bašić (1979, Bosnia and Herzegovina), an award-winning poet and a journalist, is Assistent Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy. Her story To Survive Hitchhiking (Kako preživjeti auto-stop) was featured in a compilation of stories that won the UNESCO competition Bun(t)ovna p(r)oza in 2001. In 2016 she was a writer in residence at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna and was awarded Berlin Fellowship by the Academy of Arts in 2018. She published four collections of poetry and in 2017 her first book of prose. For the poetry collection A Promo Clip for My Homeland (Promotivni spot za moju domovinu), she received the Literaris Bank Austria 2012 award. Bašić is currently completing her doctoral dissertation at the University of Graz.
The author will be presented at the festival with a video reading.
