Ahmet Hromadžić is a prominent writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who was born on October 11, 1923, in Bjelaj near Bosanski Petrovac, where he finished elementary school.
He graduated from the Technical and Higher Pedagogical School in Sarajevo. He participated in the Second World War. He worked as a journalist for “Oslobođenje” and the Sarajevo Daily, and as an editor for the newspaper “Krajina” in Bihać and the culture section of the Sarajevo newspaper “Oslobođenje”. As the editor of the publishing company “Veselin Masleša”, he founded the children’s library “Lastavica”.
He wrote short stories and novels for children and adults, literary and theater criticism, literary reports, sketches and articles. His works have been translated into many world languages, included in the selections of children’s literature and reading material of some European countries (Italy, Norway, Belgium). He was a member of the Editorial Board of the international edition Children of the World, the Academy of Sciences and the Writers’ Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a member of the Writers’ Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with Husein Tahmiščić, Izet Sarajlić, Velimir Milošević and Vladimir Čerkez, he initiated the international literary event “Sarajevo Days of Poetry” organized by the Writers’ Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1962.
In 2007, the primary school in Bosnaski Petrovac was named “Ahmet Hromadžić” Elementary School, and a memorial plaque to Ahmet Hromadžić was also placed on the family house in Bosanski Petrovac on Pekiska Street. In Bihać, the Ahmet Hromadžić Memorial Room was opened within the Cantonal and University Library after the implementation of part of the project to commemorate Ahmet Hromadžić’s name. Activity on the project continues. Due to his writing style and the acceptability of his works among the reading public, especially children, Ahmet Hromadžić is called the “Bosnian-Herzegovinian Andersen”.
The works of Ahmet Hromadžić are now included in the reading materials of elementary schools. Ahmet Hromadžić’s works are permeated by his childhood spent in Bjelaj near Bosanski Petrovac, with the recognizable landscape of the Osječenica mountain, the Bjelajska tower, and the natural beauty and challenges of the wilderness with all its beauty and natural disasters, as well as the colorfulness of the animal world in the untouched nature of the surroundings of Bosanki Petrovac.
During his many years of work, Hromadžić won many awards, and some of them are: National Youth Award of Yugoslavia (1948), Award of the Society of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1956), Award of the Society of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1966), Award of the Young Generation (1971), Award of Dragon Children’s Games (1973), Award of Kurirček (1974), Twenty-seventh of July Award of SR BIH (1974), the Sixth of April Award of the City of Sarajevo (1958), the ZAVNOBIH Award (1986), the Order of Labor with a Golden Wreath and the Order of the Republic of the Second Order.
Some of Hromadžić’s most famous works are: “Labudova poljana”, novel, Sarajevo, 1952; “Dwarf from the Forgotten Land”, novel, Sarajevo, 1956; “Patuljak vam prica”, short stories, Sarajevo, 1957; “Petrified Wolves”, novel, Sarajevo, 1963; “Children’s writers about themselves”, (I, II, III) prose, Sarajevo 1963; and many others. Ahmet Hromadžić died on January 1, 2003, in Sarajevo.
Source: Sarajevo Sehara
