Hamza Humo
Hamza Humo (30 December 1895 – 19 January 1970) was a Bosnian journalist, poet, dramatist, and writer. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His nephew Avdo Humo was a communist politician in Yugoslavia.
Hamza Humo

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- Name
- Hamza Humo Хамза Хумо
- Born
- 30 December 1895
- Birthplace
- Mostar, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 19 January 1970
- Place of death
- Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
- Nationality
- Serbia
- Occupation
- writer · poet
- Languages
- Bosnian · Serbian
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Hamza Humo (30 December 1895 – 19 January 1970) was a Bosnian journalist, poet, dramatist, and writer. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His nephew Avdo Humo was a communist politician in Yugoslavia.
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Hamza Humo (1895–1970) was a poet and writer, of Serbian nationality. The poet was born in Mostar and died in Sarajevo. Languages used include Bosnian and Serbian.
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• Name — Hamza Humo Хамза Хумо • Born — 30 December 1895 • Birthplace — Mostar, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary • Died — 19 January 1970 • Place of death — Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia • Notable Works — Grozdanin kikot (1927)
Biography
Biography
He was born on 30 December 1895 in Mostar. He finished elementary school, gymnasium and maktab in Mostar. At the beginning of the First World War, Humo was drafted into the Austrian army, since Bosnia and Herzegovina had been part of Austria-Hungary for over 30 years at that point. He served as an interpreter and clerk in a hospital, in Győr, Hungary. After the war, he returned to Mostar, and enrolled at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Art History. From 1945 he regulated the Bosniak newspaper Nova doba (New Age), and subsequently worked as an editor of Radio Sarajevo and Director of the Art Gallery. Humo's first published work was Nutarnji život (Inner Life) in 1919. He became the editor of Zabavnik in 1923. Humo also served as an editor for the magazine Gajret from 1923 until 1931. From 1927 to 1941. he was a journalist of the Belgrade based newspaper Politika.
Works
Works
• Nutarnji život (1919) • Strasti (1923) • Grad rima i ritmova (1924) • Sa ploča istočnih (1925) • Grozdanin kikot (1927) • Pod žrvnjem vremena (1928) • Od prelaza na Islam do novih vidika (1928) • Slučaj Raba slikara (1930) • Pripovijetke (1932) • Ljubav na periferiji (1936) • Zgrada na ruševinama (193) • Za Tita (1946) • Pjesme (1946) • Hasan opancar (1947) • Adem Čabrić (1947) • Poema o Mostaru (1949) • Tri svijeta (1951) • Perišićeva ljubav (1952) • Izabrane pjesme (1954) • Hadžijin mač (1955) • Sabrana djela (1976) • Jablan do neba (1980) • Izbor iz djela (1982)
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Hamza Humo is recorded as writer and poet.
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1895
Hamza Humo born at Mostar.
1970
Hamza Humo died at Sarajevo.
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Literature
Literature
On the Translation of Turkisms from Bosnian into German in Hamza Humo’s Novel Grozdanin kikot, Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023
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- 1.Hrvatski biografski leksikon. Humo, Hamza. 30 December 2013.
- 2.Radio Sarajevo. Hamza Humo: Oproštaj s Mostarom. 19 January 2014.
- 3.Kul. Sjećanje: Hamza Humo. 30 December 2011.
- 4.Camo. HAMZA HUMO 1895-1970. 6 September 2014.
- 5.Radio Sarajevo. Sjećanje na Hamzu Humu, književnika, novinara i historičara umjetnosti. 30 December 2013.
- 6.IBAR. Na današnji dan rođen Hamza Humo – 1895. 30 December 2012.
- 7.Hrvatski biografski leksikon. Humo, Hamza. 30 December 2013.
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