Dževad Karahasan is a Bosnian

Bosnians

Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 poet.

Education

He studied literature and theatre at the university of Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

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Life

In 1993 Karahasan fled the war in Sarajevo, a city that plays a central role in his work. From 1986 to 1993, Karahaan was a lecturer in drama and drama theory and the dean of the Academy for Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo, since 1993 he has been a guest lecturer at various European universities, including Salzburg, Berlin and Göttingen.

Theatre

Since 1993 Karahasan works as a dramatist for ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre

ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre

ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre in Vienna, Salzburg and Klagenfurt, is a society specialized in the realisation of new forms of theatre especially of projects for contemporary new music theatre, scenic concerts, theatre for young people, theatre concerts, deaf theatre, directed space,...

. His plays have been performed in Austria (Vienna, Krems, Hallein, Eisenstadt, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt), Germany (Gera, Erfurt, Berlin, Leipzig), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Ukraine (Odessa), Czech Republic (Prague, Hradec Králové, Brno), Kosovo (Pristina), Poland (Szczecin), Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival) and USA (Washington DC).

Literature and essays

In addition to his dramas and novel Karahasan published numerous essays in various European newspapers.

Awards

He has been honored for his work with the Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon (Charles Veillon European Essay Prize) and the Herder Prize in 1994. The "Bruno Kreisky

Bruno Kreisky

Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after World War II....

 Prize for Political Books" he got in 1995. At the Leipzig Book Fair in 2004 he was awarded with the Leipzig Book Prize for European Relations. 2010 he got the Vilenica Prize of the Slovene Writers Association.

Novels and Essays

• "The Eastern Divan", 1993 ISBN 3851290844
• "Exodus from a City," 1993 ISBN 1568360576
• "About the exile in the open society" 1994
• "King's legends," 1996 ISBN 3910161731
• "Citizen Handke, Serbs people" in "The anxiety of the poet from reality," 1996 ISBN 3882434120
• "Should 'Faust' be saved?" in "Freedom.Equality.Fraternity." Bregenzer Festspiele
  Bregenzer Festspiele
  Bregenzer Festspiele is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Austria.Founded in 1946, the festival presents a wide variety of musical and theatrical events in several venues:...
  
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• "The Rink of Shahrijar" 1997 ISBN 3871342394
• "Forms of life" (about theatre together with Herbert Gantschacher
  Herbert Gantschacher
  Herbert Gantschacher is an Austrian director and producer and writer.- Education :...
  
  ) 1999 ISN: 3852660416
• "The questions to the calendar" 1999 ISBN 3852661188
• "Sara and Serafina" 2000 ISBN 3871344095
• "The book of Gardens" 2002
• "Poetics at the Border" (together with Markus Jaroschka) 2003 ISBN 3854890842
• "The Night Council" 2006 ISBN 3458172912
• "Reports from The Dark World" 2007 ISBN 9783458173373
• "The Shadows of The Cities" 2010 ISBN 9783458174516

Theatre

• "The Wheel of St. Catherine," National Theatre Sarajevo 1990
• "Al-Mukaffa|Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
  Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa
  Abū-Muhammad Abd-Allāh Rūzbeh ibn Dādūya/Dādōē , known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ , Ibn Muqaffa/Ebn-e Moghaffa , or Rūzbeh pūr-e Dādūya , was a Persian thinker and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam.-Biography:...
  
  " Theatre Akzent Vienna by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 1994
• "The Song of Fools of Europe" Literary installation of a libretto, together with Herbert Gantschacher, Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 1994
• "Povuceni Andjeo" Danube Festival in Krems by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 1995
• "The Concert of Birds" Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 1997 ISBN 3852660378
• "The Atlas of Feelings" Frankfurt/Oder 1999
• "Woyzeck" adopted from the fragment of Georg Büchner, National Theatre Sarajevo 1999
• "Babylon or The Trip of The Beautiful Jutte" European Cultural Centre Erfurt by ARBOS - Companyy for Music and Theatre 1999
• "The Strangers" ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre Vienna 2001
• "UROBOS: Project Time" together with Herbert Gantschacher, Singapore Arts Festival by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater 2001
• "Snow and death" (adopted by Herbert Gantschacher) ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 2002
• "On the edge of the desert" neuebuehnevillach by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 2003
• "An old Oriental Fable" ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 2004
• "The Death of Empedocles" adopted from the fragment of Friedrich Hölderlin together with Herbert Gantschacher, ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 2005
• "The One and The Other" ARBOS - Society for Music and Theatre 2005
• "Banquet" neuebuehnevillach by ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre 2005 ISSN: 1012-4705
• "The Maps of The Shadows" ARBOS - Companpy for Music and Theatre 2009

Audio CDs

• "Al-Mukaffa" ARBOS 1996
• "The Singing of The Fools of Europe" ORF ARBOS 1998
• "UROBOS : Project Time" Singapore Arts Festival 2001
• "Banquet" Tonstudio Weikert ARBOS 2006