Lamija Begagić was born in 1980 in Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She lives in Sarajevo, where she graduated in South Slavic literature. She publishes poetry and prose in prestigious literary editions, she is an editor of children's magazines, she writes journalistic articles for several web portals, but her strength is in short narrative forms.
Graduation Anniversary (2005) is her first collection of stories, published simultaneously in Belgrade and Sarajevo and immediately translated into Slovenian.