Mak Dizdar
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Mak Dizdar 🇧🇦

Mehmedalija Mak Dizdar (Known as "Mak Dizdar")
Master Poet, President of Writers' Union of Bosnia, Author of Stone Sleeper (Kameni spavač)
Born 1917-10-17 🇧🇦 Stolac, Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Passed Away 1971-07-14 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lifespan 53 years old
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"There is a land, my friend, both starved and barefoot, both cold and naked; but pardon me: defiant of sleep and dreaming!"

Archival Overview

Preeminent 20th-century Bosnian poet whose 1966 masterpiece 'Kameni spavač' ('Stone Sleeper') drew upon medieval stećci tombstone inscriptions to express the tragic, defiant spirit of Bosnia.

Biographical Record

Mehmedalija 'Mak' Dizdar was born on October 17, 1917, in Stolac, near the famous Radimlja necropolis of medieval tombstones (stećci). Moving to Sarajevo, he worked as a journalist, publisher, and President of the Writers' Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1966, Dizdar published Kameni spavač (Stone Sleeper), universally hailed as the most profound poetic monument of modern Bosnian literature. Channelling the archaic inscriptions carved on medieval Bogomil tombstones, Dizdar explored themes of life, death, cosmic mystery, and Bosnia's perpetual struggle between East and West. His iconic poem 'Zapis o zemlji' ('Record of the Land') remains an immortal declaration of Bosnian resilience.

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Final Resting Place

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Bare Cemetery
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
GPS: 43.8780, 18.3950
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