Lejla Kalamujić
area: Literature
Key Facts
nationality
Bosnia and Herzegovinaarea
Literatureresidence
Sarajevorecommending institution
BMEIAtime period
February 2016 - March 2016Born in Sarajevo in 1980 where she still lives. Graduated at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology.
She’s the author of the two collection of stories “The Anatomy of a Smile” and “Call Me Esteban”.
She writes prose, essays and reviews in magazines and on web portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.
I would use the time in "Artist in Residence Program" to write my new book – collection on short story. For a year now, I research historical documents and old newspaper in Historical Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to find all material about writings on LGBT persons thought the Sarajevo’s history. I have found many interesting articles about claims and punishing LGBT persons in different time and political and social environment. My goal is to – through short stories – present the idea of “sickness”, its develop and changing till now days.