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Dževad Karahasan

Dževad Karahasan was a Bosnian and Austrian playwright, writer, teacher, dramaturge and editing staff (1953–2023). He was born at Tomislavgrad and died at Graz.

Dževad Karahasan in brief

Born
1953
Died
2023
Known for
playwright, writer, teacher, dramaturge, editing staff, essayist and theatre critic
Place of birth
Tomislavgrad
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Career and activity

Dževad Karahasan worked in literature, drama, dramaturgy, theatre and pedagogy. His work is associated with postmodern literature.

He was employed by University of Sarajevo. He belonged to German Academy for Language and Literature.

Recognition and collections

Dževad Karahasan received Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book, Graz resident writer, Herder Prize, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding and Vilenica Prize.

Catalogued works

26 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

The Seeds of Death. The Night Council. Un déménagement. Misionari. La roue de sainte Catherine. Knjiga vrtova ; O jeziku i strahu. Nedoumice. Iz tame svijeta. Sjeme smrti. Sarajevo. Uvod u lebdenje. L'âge du sable. Utjeha noćnog neba. La victòria pòstuma de Hitler. Schahrijârs Ring. Dnevnik melankolije. Kraljevske legende. Kuća za umorne. Na rubu pustinje. Noćno vijeće. Tagebuch der Aussiedlung. Istočni diwan. Knjiga vrtova. Sara i Serafina. Izvještaji iz tamnog vilajeta. O jeziku i strahu.

Literature

8 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Karahasan, Dževad, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2023. Karahasan, Dževad: Šahrijarov prsten, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Karahasan, Dževad, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Karahasan, Dževad: Noćno vijeće, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Ivana Drmić / Grischka Grauert. „Meine Sache ist es, zu verstehen.“ Interview mit Dževad Karahasan, (Post-)Jugoslawien. The phenomenon of fear in the collection 'Princ Vatre' from Filip David and 'Sara i Serafina' from Dževad Karahasan, Univerzitetska Misao, 2020. Dževada Karahasana pisanie ogrodów, Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo, 2022. A novel that swirls around: Parallel reading of Karahasan's "Eastern Diwan" and "Simon the Miracle Worker" by Danilo Kiš, Baština, 2023.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 20 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Dževad Karahasan studied at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and University of Sarajevo. the recorded working language is Bosnian and German.

The field of work recorded is literature, drama and dramaturgy. The authority associates the name with postmodern literature.

Employment is recorded with University of Sarajevo. Membership is recorded of German Academy for Language and Literature.

Distinctions recorded are Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon, Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book, Graz resident writer and Herder Prize.

Chronology

  1. 1953Dževad Karahasan born at Tomislavgrad.
  2. 2023Dževad Karahasan died at Graz.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Ivana Drmić / Grischka Grauert. „Meine Sache ist es, zu verstehen.“ Interview mit Dževad Karahasan, (Post-)Jugoslawien

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    Karahasan, Dževad, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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    Karahasan, Dževad, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2023

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  4. 4.

    Karahasan, Dževad: Noćno vijeće, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

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  5. 5.

    Karahasan, Dževad: Šahrijarov prsten, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

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  6. 6.

    Open Library author record for Dževad Karahasan (Internet Archive), 24 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Dževad Karahasan.

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  8. 8.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q700600: Dževad Karahasan

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  9. 9.

    “Dževad Karahasan”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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