Derviš Sušić

Author, journalist and revolutionary. Sušić was born in Vlasenica. As a student of the Sarajevo Teachers' School, he left with a group of students in 1942 . years in the partisans, which had a significant impact on his literary world and thematic preoccupation. After the war, he taught in Srebrenica and Tuzla. He was was a journalist for "Oslobodjenje", "Zadrugar", occasionally a contributor to other newspapers, and the manager of the National Library in Tuzla and a socio-political worker in Sarajevo. Sušić published over two dozen literary works, some of the most authentic works depicting Bosnian history and life during these periods. He was uniquely talented and often compared to Selimović.