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Semsudin Gegic

Semsudin Gegic was born in 1951 in Dolina Zavidovici, and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (theatre, film, radio and television) of the Arts University in Belgrade, in t...view moreSemsudin Gegic was born in 1951 in Dolina Zavidovici, and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (theatre, film, radio and television) of the Arts University in Belgrade, in the then Yugoslavia. He subsequently specialised in multimedia direction in Milan, Italy.He has authored short stories and dramas, and is a theatre, TV and film director. Gegic’s career spans thirty five years to date, and he is one of the few South East European authors to receive several dozen awards, as well as the highest local and international recognition in all media and genres he has attempted.He was the screenwriter and director of several dozen radio-dramas, documentaries and TV movies that made the official selection of prestigious radio, television and film festivals in the USA, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, and authored ten original theatre dramas, which played on the stages of professional theatres throughout South East Europe.His drama Ruho (The Outfit) received the prestigious Isak Samokovlija literary award for the best drama written in Serbo-Croatian in the former Yugoslavia in 1984, and its translation into Italian won the Italian First Special Award at Napoli’s Drammaturgiain Festival, awarded to the world’s best drama in the Italian language, in 2002. Ruho was also selected for the Ka novoj drami anthology of dramas in ex-Yugoslavia (published by Nova knjiga, Belgrade, 1987), and for an anthology of Bosniak dramatic literature, published by Preporod in Sarajevo, 2017.Ruho is a part of a trilogy published in 1997 by Mostar’s IRO Slovo, under the title Seobe lica. The other dramas in the trilogy are Sarajevska trokuka (Sarajevo Triple Hook) and Genetski ples (The Genetic Dance).In the pre-war period between 1975 and 1995, Gegic’s short stories and poetry were published in newspapers, specialist magazines, and bulletins, and in 2017 and 2018 he was the most read author on the prestigious Bosnian and Herzegovinian and American portal Kliker.info, where over the course of two years his short stories and his Dnevnik seobenog lica (A Nomad’s Diary) were regularly followed by several hundred thousand readers.He spent the longest period of his life and professional career in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has lived and created in Milan, Italy since 2018, where he has also received treatment for lung cancer in the hospital Ospedale San Raffaele.view less