Arts and Culture: Ajla Terzic: A Not So Simple Life
Arts and Culture: Ajla Terzic: A Not So Simple Life

Summary/Abstract: The Bosnian novelist and journalist talks about growing up in wartime, Yugoslav pop, and why Bosnia needs to move on. Ajla Terzic, born in 1979, is a Bosnian novelist and journalist. She is the author of two novels, Lutrija (The Lottery) from 2009 and Mogla je biti prosta prica (This Could Have Been a Simple Story) from 2011; she also published a book of poetry, Kako tesko pisem (How Hard It Is for Me to Write) in 2004. Since 2009 she has been a foreign policy editor and columnist for Oslobodjenje in Sarajevo. She also works regularly with the Serbian media outlets Pescanik.net and Vreme. She earned her master’s degree in English language and literature from the University of Sarajevo in 2012 and has just completed a year at the University of Maryland as a Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellow. She has won several literary prizes in Europe and also translated fiction and essays from English into Bosnian.

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