Adnan Mahmutović 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 two novels, Thinner Than a Hair and, most recently, At the Feet of Mothers; a short-story collection, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair; and a volume of literary criticism, Ways of Being Free.
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A Bosnian Swedish writer considers how extreme nuances and barely perceptible differences, which signify no change in the core meaning of a word, still evok...
Jasna Đuričić, in her role as Aida Selmanagic, from Jasmila Zbanic's film, Quo vadis, Aida? (2020)
A war refugee from Bosnia now living, writing, and teaching in Sweden reviews...
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...
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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...
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...
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...