Ahmed Burić
poet and journalist
Ahmed Burić was born in Sarajevo in 1967. He studied journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences. He is a poet, journalist, columnist, translator, literary critic and editor. He was an editor at the daily Oslobođenje and writes for the Radio Sarajevo portal and the Slovenian daily Dnevnik. During the war and the early 1990s he lived in Ljubljana.
He has published the poetry collections Bog tranzicije (2004), Posljednje suze krvi i nafte (2010), Maternji jezik (2013) and Hipertenzija (2017), the essay collection Između Ivana i Azize (2015) and the novel Tebi šega što se zovem Donald (2017). He translates Slovenian literature, including works by Goran Vojnović, Vlado Kreslin and Esad Babačić. He wrote the foreword to the catalogue of the 11th Sarajevo Salon (2023).