Adnan Mahmutović

Adnan Mahmutović (adnanmahmutovic.com) came to Sweden from Bosnia as a war refugee in the 1990s. He lectures at Stockholm University in literature and creative writing and has published a novel, Thinner Than a Hair, a short-story collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair, and a volume of literary criticism, Ways of Being Free.

At the Feet of Mothers by Adnan Mahmutović

Summer 2020
Adnan Mahmutović

Blaenau-Ffestiniog, UK. Cinnamon Press. 2020. 250 pages. AT THE FEET OF MOTHERS, a Qur’anic trope for paradise, seems initially unrelated to smart but naïve, one-eye...
Surprised by Handke

October 17, 2019 | Adnan Mahmutović

Photo by Peter Tandlund / Flickr A Bosnian refugee of war now living, teaching, and writing in Stockholm considers the Swedish Academy’s selection for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, P...
Comics, War, and Ordinary Miracles

May 2015
Adnan Mahmutović, Lucy Durneen

After meeting at a short-fiction conference, Adnan Mahmutović and Lucy Durneen began talking to one another about his childhood love of comics and his efforts to preserve them during the Bosnian...
How to Fare Well and Stay Fair by Adnan Mahmutović

September 2013
Adnan Mahmutović

Cromer, England. Salt. 2012. ISBN 9781907773280 Whereas much exile literature foregrounds educated urbanites voicing nostalgia for lost cultures, Adnan Mahmutović portrays Bosnian villagers who renoun...