In "Graduation Anniversary" Lamija Begagić makes us all witnesses of pieces of the lives of her former classmates, still young people, whose existence has been marked forever by the war. But the thunderous words, as well as the big topics, are not present in the stories, or remain in the background. Begagic prefers daily events; she is interested in partnerships, cracks and discrepancies between people who should be close to each other, their apparent and hidden disappointments. Sparingly and delicately, with two or three short replies or gestures, the writer introduces us to the innermost thoughts, hopes and fears of her characters, leaves them to reveal themselves. The twenty-three short stories, or "cuts", as the author calls them, are perfect in their unpretentiousness, wisdom and crystal clarity.
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
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.
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