Zija Dizdarević: Jeden deň v mojom mestečku
Zija Dizdarević: One Day in My Little Town

Summary/Abstract: Zija Dizadarevic was born in Vitini near the town of Ljubuški in western Herzegovina on February 18 1916. But his childhood and youth are connected with the city of Fojnica, where his family moved a few years after his birth she moved. After finishing elementary school, he attended gymnasium in Sarajevo and continued teacher's school, which he graduated with excellent grades in 1936. His literary work was also started here somewhere career. He published his first literary works as a high school student, but he also took part in school ones strikes, for which they persecuted him. His activities against the regime made it impossible for him to teach and he could not not even find another qualified job. He earned his bread through hard physical work. He started studying in 1937 pedagogy and psychology at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where his literary works began appear in many newspapers. It was during this period that he met and became friends with another well-known writer, Branko Copic. Hand in hand with his literary achievements, however, his political involvement also flourished. As one of the signatories of the open letters of the leading Belgrade student youth he was soon arrested and imprisoned. However, he managed to escape from the Belgrade prison and in the first year during the second world war (he was not even 30 years old) he worked as an illegal collaborator of the resistance as in Fojnica and in Sarajevo. The day before he joined the partisan army (one February night 1942) a secret agent recognized him in a Sarajevo bar. They immediately arrested him and dragged him off to the dungeon the well-known Ustasha concentration camp Jasenovac. He was soon executed there.

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