Juraj Martinović

Literary historian, translator, and a rare distinguished member of both the Academy of Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. he was born and grew up in Sarajevo. He completed his studies in Sarajevo and his Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana. He published a number of books, translations (from the Slovenian language) and about one hundred and fifty scientific and professional papers in relevant scientific journals, focusing on Slovene literature & comparative study of South Slavic literature, and Croatian and Bosnian literature .He was the director of the Institute of Language and Literature in Sarajevo, dean of Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and the mayor of Sarajevo (1989-91).